Chapter 148: Chapter 128 Delving into Hell_1
Duanmu Huai naturally had no idea that someone was planning a trap for him, but the deeper he went, the more he felt something was not quite right.
Because, the demons he encountered were somewhat different from the ones he knew.
Generally speaking, as a Judge, Duanmu Huai was very familiar with the demonic minions of the four Chaos Evil Gods. But the demons he was meeting now were not the minions of the Chaos Evil Gods, but more like… the Primal Demons?
Well, this is interesting.
Contrary to popular belief, the Chaos Evil Gods did not always exist in Subspace. In fact, in the beginning, the Chaos Evil Gods were just a group of…um… things similar to spiritual energy, without self-awareness or form.
Subspace at that time was very peaceful. Apart from some demons born of emotional projections of life, there were no particularly powerful beings.
Here it should be explained that, due to the disordered and chaotic nature of time in Subspace itself, observing the timeline of the Subspace through human perspective is meaningless. Simply put, when an Evil God is born, it will exist in the past, present and future of Subspace all at once, and form a unique existence.
However, this does not mean that its existence begins at its birth.
Take the God of Lust for example, the youngest among the Chaos Evil Gods. It originated from the Elf Tribe in the universe——the Aida Spirit Tribe, which is basically related to elves, equally long-lived, powerful, and dominated. Eventually, over the long years, the Aida Spirit Tribe could no longer derive pleasure from simple hedonism, so they began to pursue more stimulating sensory experiences and crave more intense emotional ups and downs.
Finally, these twisted, fallen, and filthy intense emotions intertwined and created the God of Lust————its birth resonated within the entire Subspace, and most of the souls of the Aida Spirit Tribe were absorbed into it, making it one of the Chaos Evil Gods.
The moment the God of Lust was born, it existed in the past, present and future of Subspace. According to this rule, though it is born because of the Aida Spirit Tribe, from the moment it was born, the God of Lust would also exist even without the Aida Spirit Tribe in the past.
The same is true for the other three Evil Gods. From a human perspective of time, they are not deities who were born with the universe, nor the deities who created this world. But one day, when they were born, they became the only existing beings in the past, present, and future of this universe.
However, to facilitate understanding, it’s better to describe in accordance to the human concept of time.
According to the players’ exploration, what is currently known is that at the very least, when the Ancient Saints were exploring the universe and building the network, the Subspace was still calm. There was no trace of the Evil Gods, only some very generic Primal Demons. They are also projections of life’s emotions, but at the time, life’s emotions were not as intense or passionate, hence no Evil Gods appeared.
So perhaps some will ask, if that’s the case, then how did the Evil Gods come about?
There is no conclusive evidence or investigation results from the players regarding this. The current evidence points to the Ancient Saints————because according to the investigation results of the ruins and some historical records, when the Ancient Saints first entered the Subspace to construct the network, it was quite peaceful until they met a species called Fear of Death. This species had an extremely short lifespan. Therefore, they desired the nearly eternal life of the Ancient Saints, and were, of course, refused.
What makes you think you can just walk up to me and demand eternal life? Even the mantis would not agree to that, let alone the frog.
So, the Fear of Death got angry and enraged. If you don’t give it to me, I’ll seize it!
Next, the war between the Fear of Death and the Ancient Saints, known as “Heaven’s War” was started.
It can be imagined that, at the time, facing the Ancient Saints, the Fear of Death had little power. There was a huge difference between the two sides, like the fully armed Imperial Army against the junk-armed private soldiers of mountain bandits. But the Fear of Death, who had been beaten down by the Ancient Saints, did not just concede. Instead, they found a backer——the Star Gods.
The Star Gods at that time were also an existence that existed in the Milky Way universe from the beginning. But at that time, they were just a pile of nerds who liked to bask in starlight. Later, the Fear of Death gave the Star Gods a physical body, giving them self-consciousness and a substantive body.
Afterwards, a Star God suggested to the Fear of Death———since you are so afraid of death, why not simply discard your fragile body and ascend mechanically?
In this way, don’t you have eternal life?
Upon hearing this, the Fear of Death thought, hey, that does make sense. So, according to the Star God’s words, they gave up their bodies and transferred their thoughts into a living metal————but this also foreordained the doom of the Fear of Death. Their life and soul became the property of the Star Gods, and what was transplanted into the living metal was just their thought.
And so, the Fear of Death ceased to be, and the Space Undead was born.