Very reasonable cultivation

Chapter 140 The old man in white cloth

"You can call me God, child. Many people used to call me that." The old man in white cloth said this with a hint of vicissitudes in his tone.

The universal storage device's single eye moved, and he looked at the old man in front of him again. He had messy gray and slightly curly hair, cloudy eyes, and a faint smell of earth on his body. He was far from the image of the omnipotent "God" in the legend.

"God? That is a deity that is achieved through faith. You shouldn't be able to come to a world other than the one you created, right? Is there something special about this universe?" Tian Zhen asked doubtfully. Although he was confused about the identity of the old man in front of him, there was no contempt in his tone.

"Hahaha~ kid, this is a grave, this is a grave, and I have fallen long ago, leaving behind only a remnant of incomplete consciousness." The old man suddenly laughed, with a hint of bitterness and helplessness in his voice.

The old man in white cloth seemed to be looking into the endless void. That was his former glory, but also his current sorrow.

"This body is just an unlucky child chosen by my remaining memories and became the carrier of my broken godhead, so I came to this world." He sighed slowly.

Upon hearing this, Tian Zhen, considering that all the deified beings he had seen so far were either corpses or remnants of godhood, couldn't help but ask curiously, "What on earth happened? Why have all the gods I've seen so far become half-dead like you?"

The old man in the white cloth suddenly became serious and said solemnly, "Shh~ I don't remember the specifics of that period. My remaining memories are telling me not to look for it, not to recall it, and not to describe it. I can't give you an answer to this question."

Tian Zhen was stunned. He didn't understand why this old man, who called himself God, was so repulsed by this memory, as if it had touched some taboo. He vaguely suspected that the Skeleton Monster instinctively didn't want to re-enter the Infinite Avenue and ascend to godhood for this very reason, and so it was trying to erase all memories of its specific form.

The most effective way to eliminate nature is to end life completely and stop thinking.

"Then why do you stay here all the time? Given your ability, it shouldn't be difficult to leave here, right?" Tian Zhen continued to ask with a hint of confusion in his tone.

"Haha, where else can I go?" the old man in white cloth shook his head and laughed. The wrinkles at the corners of his eyes were like marks carved by time, telling of his vicissitudes of life.

"I've already killed one unfortunate child. Wouldn't traveling to other worlds mean I'll kill another? Beings like us, unable to die even if we want to, are nothing more than aliens in this world. I can't escape this sin, nor can I evade this responsibility. I can only do my best to maintain the stability of this universe and help the children deal with the broken bodies of us who have arrived from other worlds."

He paused, as if recalling something, "Back then, in order to save that child, I had to..." He hesitated to speak, his expression gloomy, as if he didn't want to touch that painful memory.

"Are you talking about... the person you possessed?" Tian Zhen asked cautiously. He vaguely felt that this old man was carrying a heavy secret.

"Yes, I once possessed his body, but in the end..." The old man's voice lowered, filled with self-blame and regret. "I couldn't control my own power, which ultimately led to his death. I wanted to use my power to help him, but in the end I became a burden to him."

He raised his head, his eyes filled with sadness and helplessness. "I can only stay here, watching the children grow up day by day, and watching the world constantly change. I can't fit in with this world, and can only become a silent guardian, an existence that will never be understood."

His words were filled with self-loathing, regret for the past, and confusion about the future. He could not escape his sins, nor change his fate. He could only silently protect the world he had hurt in endless loneliness.

Tian Zhen could only remain silent, processing and digesting the information he had obtained in his mind. According to the people here, everything here was conceptual residue, belonging to memetic pollution. None of them were things that changed naturally in this world. Most of them had infinite concepts, infinite regeneration, infinite power, and were indestructible like artifacts.

Looking at the skeleton in front of him with lightning, Tian Zhen seemed to be able to hear its sadness, and Tian Zhen also had an idea about this.

He spoke through the universal storage device to the old man in white cloth who called himself God, "If we repair those that can be repaired, and give those that cannot be repaired a spirit and store them in the subspace, so that the spatial fluctuations of this world can be balanced, wouldn't that reduce the vicious cycle of more and more remaining divine objects and increasingly unstable space?"

What Tian Zhen said was not without basis. After all, he was still half the spirit of the divine artifact Nine Yang Cauldron.

"You can repair it? No! You can give souls to those dead things? Oh! You're not a remnant, you're a complete human who came here from another world!" The old man in white cloth kept saying in surprise, and then he gave three consecutive shocks, his tone full of disbelief.

"You just realized it now?" Tian Zhen said with some doubt in his tone.

The old man in white shook his head, his surprise subsided, and he said in amazement, "I can't believe you have such control over the spatial membrane that you use in other worlds. I don't even remember seeing that. Your understanding of space is simply unheard of!"

Tian Zhen understood in his heart that it was probably because he was still in the Qi training stage, and his own Qi could be pinched and deformed at will.

The old man in white cloth paused and continued, "I'd like to ask you for a favor. Could you take everything away from here? That way, I can completely seal off this space and prevent the humans here from being invaded by foreign remnants. Those remnants are causing increasing fluctuations in this space. I must stop them from spreading. Otherwise, more and more things will come, and I don't know what they will be."

Tian Zhen said with some difficulty: "This is a bit too much. I will try my best. I can't guarantee that there will be any residual consciousness. Some things will resist. I don't know if it will work."

"Don't worry, young god, I will do my best to help you." With a hint of expectation in his eyes, the old man in white cloth said confidently.

"I haven't become a god yet, so I'm not a god at all. Don't flatter me." Tian Zhen said a little embarrassedly.

Over the next few days, the animals in the shelter and protection base began to disappear mysteriously, and the person in charge of the base was furious at a man in a white coat who looked like a gorilla.

He also ran over to ask the old man floating in the room, "God, have you noticed that the shelter in our shelter is disappearing?"

The old man, sitting cross-legged and wearing a white cloth, said with a smile: "I see, kid, isn't it a good thing for you that the containment object has disappeared?"