As time went on, practitioners of Spiritual Inception began to call themselves the New Humans. With people who had achieved the second stage of release as their foundation, they formed various organizations while the world eventually stabilized.
Fang Ze's previous residential area had now completely changed, several huge fleshy cocoon eyeballs were hovering in the sky, being supported by large tentacles.
Negary's Dragon of Eternal Sin form had finished evolving, the main difference was that it now had two more heads, becoming a three-headed, three-winged western dragon.
Furthermore, after there were enough people who had achieved the second stage of release using Spiritual Inception, he had begun working on the evolution of his soul.
As for the practitioners themselves, after reaching the second stage of release, Disasforce was no longer enough to stimulate their [Origin] at all.
In other words, unless something unexpected happened, these people would be stuck at the second stage of release without being able to improve any further.
This was natural, as the source of Disasforce had already grown considerably weak.
The 'God' written within the Apocalypse Stone Tablet, the one who distributed his Authorities among the people and created the Source Pool, was actually referring to the Will of the world. The 'Will of the world' here referred to the great collective consciousness derived from every living being and non-living being in this world.
However, because of the Disaster Authority project, the Will of the world had detached a great number of Authorities from itself, thus becoming closer to Alaya, which was the collective subconsciousness of humans.
Disasforce was, in fact, the power that the Will of the world derived from itself. Due to the many timeline resets, this Will had already been mostly drained, the fact that it managed to help so many people achieve the second stage of release was itself a miracle.
The so-called 'Disaster Authority project' was a plan that was hatched in the second cycle, then put into action at the beginning of the third cycle to repel the invasion of the New Deity and Progenitor Dragon.
During the second cycle, due to their strength being too non-centralized, a portion of this world's psychics were away lured by the New Deity and Progenitor Dragon's promise of conquest, thus betraying the world. The [Origin] of those traitors were taken out from the world, no longer a part of this timeline.
In order to avoid a repeat of this, the Disaster Authority project was launched, converging the Psychic Factors that used to fill this world to create the foundation for the Source Pool.
Originally, in the second cycle, this world used to be a prosperous psychic civilization, where any talented person could easily absorb the Psychic Factors in the air to release their [Origin] and awaken a psychic ability.
During the first cycle, psychics used to live in the shadows and were very few in number, although there were strong powerhouses, they never truly appeared in the public's eyes until it was too late.
The second cycle could be considered to be a 'second life' script. The young An Ping obtained memories of the future, knowing the great calamity that was about to befall them, he actively pushed for the advent of the psychic era, greatly developing science and technology for psychic abilities. At that time, this world's supernatural civilization was at the peak of its prosperity.
The Apocalypse Stone Tablet, the Disaster Authority project, as well as many other plans were first proposed during this cycle. As the Protagonist of this 'second life' script, An Ping was naturally the greatest benefactor, fully confident in becoming the messiah of his world, but lost it all due to the betrayal of a few.
〖 Should I say, as expected of the New Deity and Progenitor Dragon? Playing with betrayal to this degree 〗
Negary silently thought. It was the same in the Flame world as well, their betrayal caused the plans and preparations of the White Light to become faulty, which resulted in everything that followed.
Back then, they were the ones who committed betrayal, but here, they invited others to commit betrayal.
Regardless, to prevent another betrayal, the Disaster Authority project was put into action in the third cycle, all of the world's Psychic Factors were gathered to create the first form of Disasforce. After that, the Will of the world divided that into Authorities, turning them into the opposition against the source of disasters, which were actually the calamities brought about by the invasion of another world.
And in the end, they would be converged under the Authority of the 'King of People', thus successfully rejecting the invaders from entering this world through the combination of all the Authorities.
Indeed, by this point, the world had resorted to only considering how to shut the entryway and prevent the invaders from coming inside. This was one of the reasons why Negary didn't trust An Ping, even if their plan succeeded, the most they would accomplish was preventing others from entering this world.
There was also the issue of how improbable this plan actually was. The 'King of People' during the third cycle was no weaker than the current Fang Ze, or rather, he was actually Fang Ze from the previous life. He would have had to gather all of the world's powers, repel the invasion and every enemy, only then would he be able to seal off this world.
In that sense, strictly speaking, the invasion of the New Deity and Progenitor Dragon had already begun, but it existed in the other cycles. The timeline might have been reset, but the power of the New Deity and Progenitor Dragon had still managed to infiltrate this world in the previous cycles.
It would be necessary to also repel this invasive power in order to seal the world off.
Knowing this, Negary would be a fool to believe a single word of An Ping's plan. Even if they actually won, their victory would essentially cause the New Deity and Progenitor Dragon no damage. In fact, Negary was sure that when it was time for him to use [Otherworld Invasion] with the aid from the Will of the world, his travel might even be intercepted by the New Deity and Progenitor Dragon.
After all, the only thing that happened was that the gate was slammed shut in their faces, would Negary be so naïve to think that the New Deity and Progenitor Dragon would simply leave this world after they were shut out?
During the conception of the Disaster Authority project in the third cycle, several people greatly contributed their wits and efforts, Lan Shan being one of them. In fact, she was one of the few who achieved the third stage of release, and it was she who perfected the abilities related to the [Super Plague] Authority.
It was for that reason that she became the initial Authority Holder of [Super Plague] during this fourth cycle.
Quite unbelievably, such a feeble little girl managed to mature enough to become an entity who achieved the third stage of release at the end of the previous cycle. Nothing could be said except that the world worked in strange and mysterious ways.
Putting the documents related to the Disaster Authority project down, Negary had various thoughts circulating in his mind.
〖 The temporal resets did not actually alter the [Origin], it had only made it return to an unreleased state, the only thing that was reset was the soul 〗
Negary pondered this fact: this situation implied that the [Origin], to a certain extent, surpassed even the timeline of an individual world.
Negary then thought of a certain technique that An Ping surrendered to him. The main use of this technique was to 'cast' the information recorded within the soul into the [Origin].
〖 The Reflective Cast Technique, a technique that An Ping and the rest relied on in order to accumulate the knowledge and technology from the previous cycles 〗
It was similar to the transmigration technique that Negary knew from long ago, but there were also differences.
〖 The fact that they surrendered this technique so easily was probably because they know about me not having an [Origin] 〗Negary nonchalantly tossed this technique aside, clearly uninterested.
Although they claimed to have surrendered all of their knowledge, Negary knew for a fact that they would withhold a certain portion. For example, information regarding that seemingly useful but was actually useless Apocalypse Stone Tablet.
On a surface level, it was essentially just a way to manifest 'destiny', but from how Yu Guang Ming from the previous cycle appeared, Negary knew for a fact that it wouldn't be as simple as a method to record 'destiny'.
Lan Shan was standing next to him; a faint golden gleam seemed to be flickering in her eyes.
〖 Since that's the case, let me accept their offer and play with them a little bit 〗Negary pondered to himself: 〖 I still need a little bit of time 〗
