Chapter 142: The Dusty Past

【Gods… even they face helplessness.】

Miss Vilyric didn’t hide the sudden thought from Xi Fu Lin, who didn’t mind and continued narrating the bitter memories she had just recalled.

【Xi Fu is still Xi Fu. Although His divine power and body have undergone uncontrollable periodic changes, it didn’t drive Him insane immediately nor transform Him into another god; even the power of the world couldn’t achieve such a feat.】

【But as I mentioned before, the authority represented by the Divine Spark affects the way the associated consciousness thinks. This is an instinctive effect, something that cannot be resisted merely by will.】

【The two split authorities began subtly altering the thoughts of the same deity. Under the Life Goddess state, Xi Fu became overly compassionate, unwilling to harm any living being, even if they were guilty; whereas the Withering Goddess started to disregard life, viewing all beings as tools destined to meet their end, seizing and trampling upon them at will.】

【Xi Fu is still Xi Fu. He struggles against this instinct, trying to manage everything with the original Earth Mother Goddess mindset regardless of the state. However, the influence grows heavier, causing Him great pain, and His personality gradually becomes reclusive and irritable, leaving little time to attend to the prayers and pleas of His followers.】

【To distract Himself and escape the torment, He made an extremely wrong decision.】

【At the edge of this world, there exist multiple special planes connected in peculiar ways, and the southern region governed by Xi Fu connects to a place called “Aibus.”】

【Because the divine body is too powerful, Xi Fu cannot cross the world boundary to enter Aibus, but He can interact with them or bestow part of His power through responding to faith and prayers.】

【Due to events from long ago, there are also sects that worship the Earth Mother Goddess in the Aibus world. It seems to be the mainstream belief there. Although the Aibus world has a sparse population and weak individual powers, they have carved their own path, researching ways to live with magical puppets, synthetic beasts, and special machinery.】

【Previously, while being aware of the existence of that other world and occasionally granting them miracles, Xi Fu had not sent angels there or looked into their situation in detail. However, the Earth Mother Goddess, eager to find something to distract Him, stumbled upon those technologies from Aibus that are completely different from this world, known as biological technology, and quickly became obsessed.】

【After a period of understanding, Xi Fu decided to utilize this technology to attempt to create a new form of life, and astonishingly, the two fragments of awareness that had already split reached a surprising consensus regarding this matter.】

【The Life Goddess Xi Fu hoped to create a perfect supreme life that wouldn’t feel pain, fatigue, wouldn’t easily die, and wasn’t bound by lifespan. Meanwhile, the Withering Goddess Xi Fu desired a more convenient and obedient tool that would absolutely follow His commands.】

【Thus, the wrong path unfolded.】

【Though the technology from the Aibus world is marvelous, many of Xi Fu’s envisioned requirements could not be met due to limitations in realms and powers. However, during a coincidental attempt, He discovered that if this technology was fused with His divine authority, it could yield astonishing breakthrough effects.】

【Eventually, after a lengthy trial, the first God-Made Beast appeared.】

【The God-Made Beast possessed all the advantages Xi Fu could conceive: ultra-fast recovery capabilities, an indomitable life force that wouldn’t die unless pulverized into dust, no sensation of pain or hunger, no need for sleep, and absolute obedience, as long as they had life energy, which the Earth Mother Goddess had in abundance.】

【He was immensely satisfied with His creation, and using it as a model, crafted many varieties of God-Made Beasts according to the characteristics of various creatures, even reluctantly detaching a small amount of divine essence to create a massive creature capable of independently producing more God-Made Beasts based on templates.】

　It seemed Xi Fu Lin had been talking for too long and intended to take a break when Miss Vilyric finally chimed in.

【That sounds quite good; if this can be applied properly, it would indeed be a very convenient asset.】

Just like the concept of robots on the Blue Star!

Xi Fu Lin sighed heavily.

【Yes, if it had stopped there, it wouldn’t have been a problem. Even the Withering Goddess Xi Fu had never considered using God-Made Beasts to start a large-scale war, but just when He was about to introduce His proud creations to the other gods and His followers, the world’s malice struck again.】

【Perhaps because the God-Made Beasts were creations of the Earth Mother Goddess Xi Fu, these beings, which should not be rejected by the world based on their realm, suffered distortions from the laws of power.】

【They began to turn grotesque and terrifying, deviating from Xi Fu’s original design, and their once docile natures turned into brutality and bloodlust. Xi Fu’s life energy could no longer sustain them, and they began to require the consumption of life to remain active.】

【The God-Made Beasts transformed into horrific Abyss Beasts created by the Earth Mother Goddess through the dark powers of the Aibus world, sparking immense panic. Outsiders couldn’t understand why the Mother Goddess of Order suddenly created such monsters, leading to a serious crisis of faith.】

【In this incident, the two split Xi Fus also experienced a complete divergence for the first time. The Life Goddess Xi Fu felt regret and unease; He determined to cease further research and began sealing all the distorted God-Made Beasts.】

【However, the Withering Goddess Xi Fu was very intrigued by this and not only tried to continue enhancing the power of the God-Made Beasts but even set her sights on this “world distortion power.” She secretly conducted various inhumane experiments on innocent lives, using Aibus world technology and Withering divine power to create all sorts of bizarre and extraordinary things.】

【Thus, the Earth Mother Goddess finally split into two entirely opposing consciousnesses, doing completely contradictory things in a cyclical state, even going so far as to shield their memories from one another to guard against the other’s possible misdeeds.】

【But destruction is always simpler than protection and healing. The wrongdoings of the Earth Mother Goddess Xi Fu escalated. Even though the Life Goddess among them tried hard to remedy it, the disasters and various tragedies caused by the God-Made Beasts — the Abyss Beasts continued to provoke public outrage, becoming intolerable to the gods.】

【Ultimately, they decided to stop and hunt down the now-mad Earth Mother Goddess Xi Fu because Xi Fu is one of the highest-tier deities with formidable power, making Her hard to deal with and impossible to completely eliminate. Thus, the gods approached Xi Fu’s guardian archangel — Minerva, outlining the situation and hoping she could act as an insider to help.】

【But Minerva, not only the strongest angel in the Earth Goddess’s faction but also absolutely loyal to Xi Fu, feigned agreement but immediately reported the matter to Xi Fu, who was currently in the Life Goddess state.】

   

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