Chapter 3729: 3729 Chapter 3729: The Lord of Hell Didn’t Die The Insect Era and the God-Buddha Era. The Discernment Beast’s account made Lin Moyu’s previous speculations about the Great World more concrete. His guesses were not far off - the Insect Race and the Buddhist Race were both beings nurtured by the Origin Continent in their respective eras. If the world will had developed intelligence a bit later in the Insect Era, the world wouldn’t have developed as it did later. That Mother Insect would have likely become the world’s master. Unfortunately, the world will gained intelligence at the last moment, changing the outcome. After a great battle, the world will killed the Mother Insect and buried that era belonging to the Insect Race. However, as beings it had nurtured itself, the world will didn’t completely exterminate the Insect Race. It left some survivors, keeping them as pets, to serve as a mark of that era. The second era belonged to the Buddhist Race. A genius appeared among the Buddhist Race who was unwilling to be controlled by the world will and wanted to transcend. As a result, he and the entire Buddhist Race were buried by the world will, ending the second era. Similarly, the world will left some survivors as pets. This is the origin of the Insect Race and Buddhist Race. After finishing his explanation, the Discernment Beast quietly watched Lin Moyu, letting him ponder on his own. Many things are better understood through one’s own thoughts than through others’ explanations. Lin Moyu organized his thoughts: "In the first era, the structure was singular and the numbers were astonishing, with consciousness approaching unity. This was likely a key reason for the world will developing intelligence." "In the second era, the structure remained singular, but numbers decreased significantly. Yet it still inevitably produced someone who defied heaven. This shows that a singular structure is not ideal." "In the current third era I’m in, the structure has become complex, with many races coexisting. There’s constant strife, with each race governing itself, and no one thinks about troubling the world will anymore." "Most importantly, in this era, the world will has begun to hide itself. It stays behind the scenes, no longer revealing its existence to others." "Everyone knows there’s a world will, but they don’t know it has intelligence. It even wants to educate the entire world through the hands of the World’s Child." The Discernment Beast chuckled: "What you say is mostly correct. The world will wants eternal existence and needs enough living beings, but they can be of different races." "It also needs enough powerful beings and sufficiently complete Great Daos. A multi-racial structure actually provides more opportunities." "So it secretly launches invasions against other worlds, plundering their fate and Great Daos." Lin Moyu said: "Cultivating powerful beings requires fate. Without enough fate, Dao Lords can’t be born and Great Daos can’t be perfected. I imagine in the current era, the world will has already destroyed quite a few worlds." The Discernment Beast replied: "Not too many. Until what you call the Origin Catastrophe occurred, a total of twelve worlds were devoured, and its Great Daos were about 90% complete." Lin Moyu sighed: "So it seems it’s not far from eternal existence." The Discernment Beast said: "Indeed, not far. Among the myriad worlds, those who have achieved this much can be counted on one’s fingers. If not for the Black Blood Realm and Heavenly God Realm’s joint attack on the Origin Continent later, it might have already succeeded." "That attack caused it to slumber for a long time, and it hasn’t fully recovered even now." Lin Moyu asked: "During the Origin Catastrophe, a powerful being called the Lord of Hell fell in my world. Do you know who did it?" Though he suspected it was the world will’s doing, he wasn’t clear on the specifics. The Discernment Beast said: "In the first era, besides the Mother Insect, there were two extremely powerful war insects in the Insect Race. These two war insects were born from the world, only slightly weaker than the Mother Insect, and stronger than current Dao Lords." "Later, when the Mother Insect was killed, the two war insects had their memories erased and became the world will’s subordinates. The Lord of Hell was killed by them." At this point, the Discernment Beast revealed a hint of mystery: "However, the Lord of Hell didn’t truly fall. He only died halfway." Only died halfway? Lin Moyu was stunned, clearly not understanding the meaning. What did it mean to only die halfway? He immediately bowed to the Discernment Beast, "Please enlighten me, senior." 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶 The Discernment Beast didn’t charge extra, smiling as he said: "This matter is known only to me. Back then, that Lord of Hell had a premonition of impending disaster, so he secretly left the Origin Continent and created a clone." "This clone was special, created by the Lord of Hell through a unique treasure. It had no master-servant relationship with the Lord of Hell; both could exist independently or together." "Moreover, they were identical, sharing the same Great Dao. Others couldn’t distinguish between them, not even the world will." Lin Moyu was shocked: "You mean, the one killed by the world will was the Lord of Hell’s clone?" The Discernment Beast said: "You could say that, but although they shared the Great Dao, once separated, their strength was only 60% of their peak." Lin Moyu suddenly understood: "No wonder the Lord of Hell fell so easily, and in the end didn’t even open the Gate of Hell." Suddenly, he had another thought: "The Gate of Hell, it’s not fake too, is it?" The Discernment Beast smiled even more happily, his mouth stretching to his neck: "What do you think?" Lin Moyu said: "Please don’t keep me in suspense, just tell me." The Discernment Beast said: "It’s both real and fake. He separated a part from Hell and created another Hell." Lin Moyu asked curiously: "Is that enough to deceive the world will?" The world will shouldn’t be so easily fooled; normally, it should be able to see through such deceptions. The Discernment Beast said: "Under normal circumstances, of course it couldn’t be deceived. But I have to say the Lord of Hell was lucky. He once opened the Gate of Hell and obtained a few good things from it." "One of these good things could replicate anything, with the effect of confusing the real and fake. Using this item, he separated part of Hell and created a half-real, half-fake Hell, thus deceiving the world will." Lin Moyu finally understood. So that Hell was fake; no wonder the Gate of Hell never opened. Now everything made sense. Such an earth-shattering secret was described so casually by the Discernment Beast, showing how different its perspective was. Suddenly, Lin Moyu felt something was off, "Wait, although you can listen to the myriad worlds, how do you know so clearly what happened after the Lord of Hell left the world?" The Discernment Beast smiled: "You don’t think you’re the first person to come find me, do you?" Lin Moyu slapped his forehead: "I see. I’m truly ignorant." The Lord of Hell had also come to find the Discernment Beast before. It made sense; someone as powerful as the Lord of Hell finding the Discernment Beast was quite normal. Most likely, the idea of creating a clone and deceiving the world will might have come from the Discernment Beast. Lin Moyu could see the clues from its slightly smug expression; it was almost certainly correct. "Then do you know what’s behind the Gate of Hell?" 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