Chapter 140: A sudden wealth, the end of the world
Is the end near?
Thinking back on the Night King's last words, Ni Kun couldn't help but imagine the strange wasteland world mixed with many doomsday elements.
That world doesn't look like a post-apocalyptic wasteland formed after the destruction of a single world.
Because on that piece of wasteland, there are modern metropolises covering hundreds of square kilometers, as well as ancient Eastern cities, Western classical castles, and even fantasy-style elf tree cities.
But all the cities have been reduced to ruins.
Active in that wasteland, apart from various doomsday monsters that choose to devour humans, there are only a few crazy living creatures like Tsunade who accidentally "traveled" through time and were tortured by the wasteland to the point of mental breakdown and cannibalism.
Even the land is losing its vitality day by day.
In that world, Ni Kun had never seen a green plant taller than two meters.
Everywhere there are sparse small trees, withered weeds, and large areas of soil that are becoming increasingly desertified.
It is a wasteland that continues to die.
Various characters have entered the world of The Twin Dragons, and doomsday elements such as "Night King and Corpse Ghost" have begun to appear on a large scale...
Will it end up like that?
Even the entire world will be completely shattered, and only a little bit of debris will remain, falling into that wasteland world and becoming a part of that wasteland world. For that world, will it be integrated into a new "attraction" with a different style?
"If it turns out to be a ghost, it will be really bad..."
Ni Kun looked a little solemn.
As a person who loves life and all kinds of new things, he doesn't want to live in a wasteland world where monsters are rampant, the world is dark and gloomy, and everything is devastated.
"Before, we could say that if the sky fell, there would be tall people to hold it up, but now, I can almost be considered tall myself...
"Alas, if you want to live a good life, you still have to take the lead when something happens!"
This time he had already taken the lead once, killing the Night King with his own hands, ending the plague of the wights, and preventing the wights from crossing the Wall.
But the Night King's last words left him feeling somewhat troubled.
What doomsday?
Will there be more and stronger doomsday monsters in the future?
How did the Night King know this?
Unfortunately, the Night King was too taciturn and didn't say a word the entire time. Only when he thought he was going to die did he reluctantly speak. The content of his last words was deliberately intended to upset Ni Kun.
His character is really bad.
After thinking about it for a while, Ni Kun shook his head, retracted his thoughts, and looked back at Zhu Yuyan and others:
"I'm going to go to the north to check if there are any fish that have escaped. You guys just wait here for me and clean up the battlefield."
After saying this, without waiting for their response, he urged the Nightmare Horse to gallop north.
The White Walkers first appeared in Tiele, north of the Turks.
Now that he had arrived at Yudujin Mountain, Ni Kun wanted to go further north to see if there was anything strange in the north.
In addition, the concept of "the sky is round and the earth is square" also bothered him a lot.
What exactly is the so-called "round sky and square earth" ?
If we keep going north, will we reach the "end of the world"?
If there really is an "end of the world", what would it look like?
With many doubts in mind, Ni Kun embarked on a long journey north alone.
He is not familiar with the geography of the grassland.
But there is no need to be familiar with it.
The Nightmare Horse is not restricted by terrain. It can travel through mountains and rivers as if it were flat ground, and can even fly in the air for a short period of time.
Therefore, just go straight north, and if there really is an end of the world, you will definitely reach it.
After the Night King died, the snowstorm that ravaged the world gradually stopped.
But the snow-covered grassland is not pure white.
When we first left Yudujin Mountain, the white snow was littered with corpses, too numerous to count at a glance.
It was not until they had advanced dozens of miles that the bodies gradually became sparse.
After walking for another hundred miles, there was no longer a corpse in sight. There was only a vast expanse of wilderness between heaven and earth.
There was nothing interesting to see except the sky and the snowfield, so Ni Kun pulled up the exchange list and checked the account balance.
Then he was surprised by the account balance.
Reincarnation point: 453000.
Origin crystal: red × 9, white × 4 32, gray × 5.
Looking at the exaggerated account balance, Ni Kun pressed his hand to his chest and was speechless for a long time.
After suffocating for a long time, he slowly exhaled a long breath, silently recited the Ice Heart Sutra, and forced himself to calm down.
When the heartbeat that was beating like a war drum gradually calmed down, he closed his eyes again and said silently in his heart:
“It’s only natural that I get so many rewards for resolving a catastrophe that could bury all living things and turn the world into a paradise for the dead…
"The only problem now is... I have the money, but I don't know where to spend it..."
That’s right, Ni Kun has become rich overnight.
All the “goods” in the exchangeable list were imported by him.
Good things are very limited, and even if you have so much money, you don’t know how to spend it.
"Never mind. The data looks too big, and there are too many white crystals. Let's synthesize them first..."
So Ni Kun first consumed four hundred white crystals and one hundred thousand reincarnation points as a synthesis fee to synthesize one hundred red crystals.
Then he combined the one hundred red crystals into twenty-five yellow crystals, spending fifty thousand reincarnation points as a synthesis fee.
Then, he combined the twenty yellow crystals into five gold crystals, spending twenty thousand reincarnation points as the synthesis fee.
After all this synthesis, Ni Kun's account balance became:
Reincarnation point: 283000.
Origin crystal: gold × 5, yellow × 5, red × 9, white × 32, gray × 5.
It looks much better this way.
However, the problem still exists. There is no treasure in Ni Kun’s exchange list that needs to be exchanged for golden crystals.
Even the things that need to be exchanged for yellow crystals are only the "Yuanpin Dzi Beads" and Ni Kun's own spiritual bloodline.
All other bloodlines, techniques, skills, and props only require red crystals at most.
So, as for money, the wealthy Ni Kun has no shortage of it.
But there are only a few good items worth spending money on Ni Kun’s shelves, so even if you want to splurge, you can’t.
"I have so much money that I feel uncomfortable if I don't spend any money!"
Ni Kun pondered for a while and decided to exchange for some practical skills first, instead of practicing on his own, and start with the initiation directly.
So after some operation.
The account balance shrank a lot, most of the white origin crystals disappeared, and several red origin crystals also disappeared. Ni Kun also instantly learned some relatively practical "little skills" such as Blood Evil Searching God Claw, Sky-Smashing Hand, Mountain and Sea Fist Sutra, Burning Hands, Explosive Finger, etc.
Although it is called "practical", Ni Kun doesn't know when he would use it.
After all, he was used to releasing his sword and knife energy to kill enemies at a distance, and he had only fought in close combat with his senior brother once so far.
"It's always good to have many skills. There's no need to spend too much time researching these irrelevant little skills. They will come in handy someday anyway..."
Ni Kun has already determined the fundamental path of "human immortal body refining and five elements bloodline", and most of his energy and time will be spent on this fundamental path.
As for the defensive techniques to defeat the enemy, flying swords, sword energy, and bloodline abilities are almost enough, and there is also the "Evil Breaking and Returning Pupils" to clear out the miscellaneous soldiers.
I learned so many practical little skills simply because I have so much money that I would feel suffocated if I didn't spend it.
But even if he learned the skills, he would not spend too much time and energy on them for the time being.
And even if he spent so lavishly, there was no need for him to have any regrets or thoughts of buying things.
Because the account is still full of money and there is nowhere to spend it:
Reincarnation point: 158000.
Origin crystal: gold × 5, yellow × 5, red × 5, white × 8, gray × 5.
After looking through the exchange list for a while, Ni Kun couldn't find anything worth his attention, so he shook his head helplessly:
"Having too much money is also a kind of distress! If only the Lord God hadn't lost contact and the exchange database was still there, it would be great. With my current wealth, I would be invincible and wouldn't have to spend my life anymore..."
After closing the exchange list, Ni Kun started to practice the initiation since he had nothing to do. After learning it, he instantly possessed various techniques and skills of a certain level of cultivation.
All the skills he chose were skills that could be driven by qi, blood, or spiritual blood power.
The Blood Evil Searching God Hand can consume blood and energy to activate it.
The Sky-Breaking Hand and the Mountain and Sea Fist can also be activated purely by the power of physical energy and blood, as well as the supernatural powers of blood.
Burning Hands and Exploding Finger can also be activated using the Fire Spirit Bloodline.
Ni Kun pointed his finger, and a faint red light shot out. In an instant, it crossed ten feet in the sky and landed on the ground. With a bang, it blasted a hole the size of a water tank in the ground.
The soil at the bottom of the pit even showed signs of crystallization, becoming as crystal clear as glass.
The power was already considerable. Even with Ni Kun's physique, he didn't want to take it head-on.
After trying the "explosive finger", Ni Kun tried the "burning hand".
As soon as he thought about it, a huge hand made of flames appeared in front of him, flew more than ten feet away, grabbed the ground, and immediately, like an excavator, grabbed a large piece of mud mixed with snow.
Under the high temperature, the snow quickly turned into mist and evaporated, and the soil was burned with black smoke, becoming like broken pieces of red bricks.
"Although it's powerful, it's a bit slow. If an expert is agile, it won't be difficult to dodge it."
He shook his head and tried the "Blood Evil Searching Hand" again. He raised his right hand, and five red lines shot out from the fingertips, transforming into a giant bloody palm. He grabbed the ground and picked up a large ball of mud through the air.
The soil held in the palm of the bloody giant hand seemed to be corroded by strong acid, making a hissing sound and billowing green smoke.
"It seems to have some overlap with the Burning Hand, but the Blood Evil Searching Hand has greater potential. Moreover, the two abilities have different attributes. If you encounter someone who is immune to fire, you can use the Blood Evil Searching Hand. If you encounter someone who can restrain the Blood Evil Searching Hand, you can also use the Burning Hand..."
Ni Kun pondered for a moment, then slapped out with his palm again, using the Sky-Shattering Hand.
When the palm came out, the air shook violently, and four colors of light, white, black, blue and red, flashed in succession. In an instant, the four forces of gold, water, wood and fire flowed in succession, exerting four levels of strength.
As the palm force exploded, rolling air waves blasted out, blowing snow and powder all over the surrounding ground and rolling up the soil, as if a cannonball had exploded in the air.
"My Sky-Smashing Hand is no longer the same as the Japanese Emperor's Sky-Smashing Hand..."
Ni Kun smiled, clenched his five fingers into a fist, and punched out.
This time, driven purely by the water spirit bloodline, the fist force surged out like a tsunami, drawing a visible water wave-like ripple in the air and plowing a ditch several meters long, three feet deep and five feet wide on the ground.
The Shanhai Fist Sutra, which is driven by the water spirit bloodline, is in line with the spirit of "sea" and its power is naturally considerable.
When Ni Kun obtains the Earth Spirit bloodline, using the power of the Earth Spirit and Water Spirit bloodlines to promote the Mountain and Sea Fist Sutra at the same time, the power will be able to reach a new level.
After trying out a few other small skills, Ni Kun was quite satisfied with them.
Although I don’t know when it will come in handy, it’s always better to have more skills.
If you have the chance in the future , you can also try the fun of beating the enemy in various ways, so as to avoid the monotony of just using flying swords and knife skills.
As a practitioner of the Five Elements, one must fully develop the Five Elements abilities to be qualified.
Afterwards, Ni Kun practiced various new skills while riding the magic horse to hurry on.
Before he knew it, a night had passed and the sky had brightened. In front of Ni Kun, a vast expanse of water appeared that stretched as far as the eye could see.
Ni Kun stopped at the water's edge and looked across, but he couldn't see the end. He thought:
"We're not at the beach, are we?
“That makes no sense. With the speed of the Nightmare Horse, I only ran a thousand miles at most this night, right?
"Besides, if there really was an ocean in the Mobei grassland, the Mongolian navy wouldn't have the title of Seven Warlords of the Sea..."
He raised his hand and grabbed a ball of water. He tasted it and found it was fresh water. After a moment's thought, he suddenly realized:
“This is Lake Baikal!”
Lake Baikal is now located in the territory of the extinct Tiele.
It is the largest freshwater lake in Eurasia, with a lake area of more than 30,000 square kilometers.
Standing by the lake, doesn’t it seem as though there’s no end in sight and it feels as vast as the ocean?
After staying by the lake for a while, Ni Kun urged the Nightmare Horse to step directly onto the lake and continue north along the lakeshore.
We ran for the entire morning, and by two o'clock in the afternoon , we had traveled more than a thousand miles. We finally saw a large area of land and mountains in front of us, and we had reached the northern end of Lake Baikal.
After leaving Lake Baikal, Ni Kun continued to head straight north, and by midnight, he had traveled more than 2,000 miles.
It should have been far away from Tiele territory and had already entered the Central Siberian Plateau, which is still an unowned land.
In this era, not to mention the people from the Central Plains, even nomadic peoples such as the Turks and Tiele rarely set foot here, making it a barren land with no one living.
It was normal that there were no people in this ghost place, but the terrain always made Ni Kun feel something was wrong.
It is true that this is a plateau, and it is normal that the terrain is rugged and undulating.
But what about that white mountain range that is vaguely visible ahead and seems to be high into the clouds?
Ni Kun was filled with doubt and he rode his horse as fast as he could. The closer he got to the "white mountains", the more shocked and heavy-hearted he felt.
Because it was not a mountain at all, but a "fog wall" that stretched from east to west and had no end in sight whether you looked left or right!
That white wall of fog seemed to be several thousand meters high, rising from the ground all the way up to the sky.
Ni Kun rode his horse to the fog wall and stopped at the edge of the primitive jungle which was dead silent without any sound of insects or birds.
Through the slightly swirling hazy white fog, one could barely see that deep in the fog wall, there was actually a huge crack of unknown width and depth. One could not see the other side, only the vast white fog. There was no end to the two sides, either, stretching from east to west like the fog wall, infinitely far away.
What’s even more terrifying is that the edge of the huge crack, which seems to lead to a bottomless abyss, is still breaking and peeling off.
From time to time, large amounts of mud, rocks, and grass would peel off from the edge of the crack with a crackling sound and fall into the abyss, and no sound of them landing could be heard.
"This... is the end of the world?"
The corner of Ni Kun's mouth twitched slightly. He stopped in front of the fog wall and stared at the edge of the huge abyss.
He remained motionless, staring at the edge of the abyss for a whole day and night.
And these 24 hours of observation made him sure of one thing:
That huge abyss is constantly expanding!
In twenty-four hours, the huge abyss that stretched from east to west and was of unknown length advanced about ten centimeters to the south, swallowing up an unknown amount of land.
Ten centimeters may not seem like much.
In a year, it would only advance 36.5 meters, and in a hundred years, it would only advance more than 3 kilometers but less than 4 kilometers to the south.
This place is thousands of kilometers away from the Central Plains. If it continues to expand at this rate, the Central Plains will enter the 21st century. I am afraid that this huge abyss will not have any impact on the Central Plains.
But Ni Kun knew that this was only the most optimistic method of calculation.
What if expansion accelerates?
What should we do if an avalanche effect occurs?
"The sky is round and the earth is square... this is really the sky is round and the earth is square! Traveling around the world is just a dream!"
Ni Kun looked around.
The fog wall is continuous and there is no end in sight, but one can vaguely perceive that it does have a certain inner curvature.
The same is true for the "bottomless abyss" inside the fog wall.
Ni Kun closed his eyes and began to imagine.
The earth is indeed spherical, but only an imperfect hemisphere or even a small half of the spherical arc surface remains.
A huge wall of fog surrounds the edge of the arc of the sphere. Inside the wall of fog is a bottomless abyss, which is constantly advancing towards the center of the arc from all directions.
Even though the advancement speed is not too fast, one day, the bottomless abyss will swallow up the entire world.
Ni Kun didn't understand how the natural system worked in such a world.
But this is the world of reincarnation, one of the many realms. Since such a world can exist, it must have its own logic for operating.
But is the final ending really that the world disintegrates and falls into the abyss, with only a few fragments left, falling into that wasteland world and becoming a large piece of garbage in the garbage dump at the bottom of the world?
“The Night King…started out from here and saw this wall of fog and the abyss, right?
"The end of the world is coming. Does he mean that at the end of this world, there will be an abyss that will continue to expand and devour the earth?"
Ni Kun frowned and thought, feeling that the Night King's intention might not be just referring to this abyss.
The abyss is advancing too slowly.
Even if the expansion is accelerated, even if it advances centripetally from all directions, even if it accumulates to a sufficient volume one day and an avalanche effect occurs, it is unknown how many years it will take before it expands to the Central Plains.
Ordinary people don’t have to worry at all, and they don’t even have to worry about their descendants.
As for things that will happen hundreds or thousands of years later, the bones of the great-grandson's great-grandson will be almost melted away. Is it the turn of ordinary people living in the present to worry about them?
But Ni Kun is different, he is determined to live forever.
If one aspires to live long but does not think about the future, he will surely have immediate worries.
"So, what the Night King meant should be that there will be more doomsday elements like it appearing in this world."
Ni Kun raised his hand and pressed his brow:
"Whether it's the doomsday monster or the expansion of the abyss at the end of the world, no matter what the situation is, the future will never be good!
“No wonder the Moon Worshiper was driven crazy. Seeing this ‘end of the world’, a person like him would definitely not be able to bear it…Instead of slowly waiting for the end of the world to come, why not destroy the world yourself? Maybe you can see through the illusion and see the truth?
"If I were not a reincarnator and did not know the truth of some parts of the world, I would probably be deeply shocked and find it difficult to accept..."
Ni Kun felt a sense of urgency in his heart.
It’s okay that the doomsday monster is coming, with his strength, he can still hold on for a few times.
But facing this bottomless abyss that was constantly expanding and slowly devouring the entire world, he was helpless.
"We must become stronger as soon as possible. The concept of the Five Elements is correct. Facing this doomsday situation, the Five Elements should have a chance to save it!"
After taking another long look at the huge fog wall and the bottomless abyss, Ni Kun, under the crazy warning of some kind of instinctive crisis, gave up the idea of going deep into the fog wall or even entering the "bottomless abyss" to explore. Without hesitation, he turned his horse around and headed south.
It has been three or four days since I came out. I have seen the "end of the world" and know where the real crisis of this world lies. It is time to go back and practice hard!
