Devil's Bible

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The world has returned to normal.

As I walked out of the church and looked back at the sign on the top of the church, I found that the sign had long since melted away, and I could no longer make out what kind of church it was.

Nems narrowed his eyes slightly, as if he was thinking about something, and then resumed his patrol of the mountain.

Along the stream, the large tree still drooped its branches to help Nemus cross the stream.

The fish with its body arched was still fishing.

A vibrant scene of life and everything thriving unfolds before your eyes.

After surveying the area, Nemes found it to be truly peaceful.

After watching the calamity creatures kill each other and tear each other apart, Nemus sighed.

"How peaceful."

“It’s time to go home.” Nemus stood up, a sword of energy appearing in his hand. The sword energy burst forth, killing several calamity creatures.

A large amount of dark purple blood poured out, completely covering the stream, and countless fish and shrimp died instantly.

After the surrounding trees and vegetation were stained with this blood, they quickly twisted and changed. One of the trees even raised its own roots and ran all the way to the place where the calamity creature died, knocking away another tree that had also been uprooted by a branch.

After choosing the best location, it decisively took root and occupied all the flesh and blood of the surrounding calamity creatures.

Seeing this, Nemus sheathed his sword, paused briefly, and then continued walking along the stream.

The arched-backed fish was still fishing, even though the river was full of dark red blood and dead fish and shrimp.

The tree was also letting go of its own branches, even though the other side of it was already twisting and turning wildly like a monster, its roots spreading to snatch the flesh and blood of the calamity creature.

Nemes then returned to the abandoned church.

Chapter 499 Counting to Six

At night, Nemus and the giant spider became book lovers again, continuing to browse through the church's collection of books.

Many of these books describe various landforms and special products related to those landforms.

For example, Nems was able to see a type of aquatic plant in a certain stream.

This aquatic plant can, to some extent, smooth out imbalances in a person's stats. It is said that if a Gold-type aquatic plant absorbs excessively chaotic stats and goes astray while in its Iron-type form, it can use this aquatic plant to modify its stats to some extent.

This was far beyond Nems' expectations.

On the back of the floating whale, there are many people whose golden seed values ​​remain at one or two hundred because the numbers they previously absorbed were too complex to find the corresponding values.

However, this predicament that has plagued countless golden species can be solved on the ground with just some water plants that are not particularly hard to find.

Of course, it's just some aquatic plants, which can only slightly smooth out the mess and bring their values ​​from a chaotic state toward a certain main value, breaking through some limitations.

Even so, once this aquatic plant appears on the back of a floating whale, it can be sold for a very high price immediately, and the merchant may even become the richest merchant on the back of the floating whale.

However, it is also very possible that one could immediately become dead.

Nemes continued flipping through the book.

During this process, the spider came and swapped books with Nemus again.

Then Nems received a new book.

The book is titled "God's Prayer," a name that sounds a bit odd.

This book is unusual in that it has a preface.

The world comes from mud, and will return to mud.

All struggles are nothing but delusion.

My delusions led to my downfall.

However, ultimately, I still want to leave them a future.

Nems looked at the preface and smiled slightly. These church members really liked to attribute sanctity to everything they did.

Then Nems began to read carefully, studying the contents.

Then they discovered it was an alchemy book.

It describes in detail the primitive state of the world—mud.

This mud is not the mud we usually think of; it represents the chaos of all things.

The mud separates afterward, and fire is the process of separation.

Water is light, so it turned into wind, and then it became water again.

What remains after that is soil.

Then the soil was removed, creating space.

All of this happened at the etheric layer.

The four elemental planes of earth, wind, water, and fire were also formed during this process.

These four elemental planes are not the four things of earth, water, wind, and fire, but rather byproducts of the emergence, operation, change, and sedimentation of these four things.

These byproducts are elements.

And what drives all of this is—ideas.

The source of the ideas lies in the astral plane.

As for who in the Astral Plane issued this 'idea' that propelled the world to change, Nemus already had the answer in his mind.

The book continues to be written.

The core concept is that everything comes from mud and will eventually return to mud.

From the moment the number zero appears, things begin to accumulate.

Once things reach a certain level, numbers will be combined and operated on.

The mutual integration and change between things has driven the emergence of more new numbers.

At that time, all sorts of things emerged due to various combinations.

Among these things, those that acquire thought from the astral plane and possess self-awareness can be called mythical beings.

The book records the changes in the world in a general tone, the emergence of mythical species, the appearance of the prime material plane, and that everything will inevitably begin to show a 'regression effect' after a certain number.

That regression effect will destroy everything, bringing everything back to square one.

All living things will be nothing more than part of the mud.

The book records that God defied this will and sought a way out.

Ultimately, this defiance led to a mistake.

This kind of mistake can have serious consequences.

The book doesn't record the specific consequences; it simply ends there.

However, on the last page, Nemus's eyes suddenly lit up.

[Upon reaching number six, under the influence of destiny, all things disperse and are brought together; strong connections emerge between phenomena and concepts, known as cause and effect!] — A maxim about destiny!

Nems truly did not expect that he would actually see a maxim about cause and effect under such circumstances.

It can be said that, based solely on this maxim of destiny, his exploration of the earth and his efforts to suppress his own thoughts were not in vain.

“I’m in this state of confusion right now.” Nemus’s self-control loosened slightly.

Then all the previous strangeness was resolved at this moment, quickly going through my mind.

The Holy Son was indeed affected. Unbeknownst to him, the causal relationships between phenomena became disordered, causing him to become equally disordered.

Only the Holy Son's soul was affected.

Although Nemes is only one being, he possesses multiple souls.

Furthermore, he possesses causal abilities and has a certain understanding of cause and effect.

If Nemus is not mistaken, the Holy Son most likely had a causal entanglement with a local paladin from who knows how many years ago.

Because the cause-and-effect relationship is wrong, when the Holy Son thinks and remembers, the memory is correct, but the corresponding result of external cognition is changed due to the confusion.

So everything seemed so normal, yet everything also seemed so abnormal.

"So, before the number six, the connections between things are so weak?" Nemes studied quietly for a while; people had become accustomed to cause and effect.

This kind of cause and effect is not the kind of cause and effect where 'good people get good rewards', that kind is called retribution.

The rule called causality is the cause-and-effect relationship between various concepts, things, and phenomena.

If there were no cause and effect, then clouds wouldn't produce rain; rain would appear on its own and wouldn't be affected by gravity. The chaos of all things would be incomprehensible to beings that base everything on cause and effect.

Anyone with even a little understanding will inevitably go crazy.

Although the cause and effect in this current state of confusion is wrong, at least there is still a connection.

There is absolutely no connection between the actual phenomena, which is unimaginable to normal people.

"The sacred number of cause and effect is six." Nemus memorized this maxim of destiny.

He then suppressed some of his thoughts and stopped communicating with other souls.

When cause and effect are confused, thinking and cognition also become problematic.

The Holy Son Nemus has once again returned to a state where everything is 'normal'.

A proverb about destiny is one important benefit, but it is not the only benefit.

Just like when Nemus asked the 'spider' before, he didn't want him to see those things.

Since the other party has not responded, there may be other changes.

Nems wasn't in a hurry, so he continued to immerse himself in the scene.

Chapter 500 The Sun Rises as Usual

The sun rises as usual.

"I repent for my laziness." Nemus opened his eyes, feeling the approach of another day, and lamented his own decadence and laziness.

Then he began his daily work, inspecting the surrounding area and cleaning the entire church again.

Turn over the accumulated vegetation, and then gather up the bones that were exposed underneath.

Most of these bones are human.

Not many wounds were found on the bones, which roughly indicates that most of them died in an instant.

Nemes glanced at them briefly, then moved all the bones to the cemetery area behind the church.

"No need to trouble yourself, we'll do it ourselves," said the skeleton, his words full of apology. He then took the tools from Nemus and began digging his own grave.

Nemes nodded, then started digging a hole on the other side.

As he dug, Nemus lay down and looked at the sky, feeling that the sky was so blue and the clouds were so dark.

The sunlight was dazzling, and the rain was quite unique.

Although it seems a bit chaotic, it can be summarized in one sentence: The weather is great, perfect for sleeping.

So Nems fell asleep, lying in the pit he had dug.

The skeleton beside him also jumped into the pit after digging it. Strands of spider silk shot out from his hands, pulling up the soil and covering and burying Nemus along with it.

Time passed quickly, and night fell in no time.

Naims reached out his hand from the pit, and the not-so-compacted soil could not stop him.

My hand reached out from the soil and felt the chill of the moonlight.

At that moment, Nemes finally realized the problem: the sun really did have a problem.

"It's not that the night becomes dangerous; it's always been dangerous. It's just that the presence of the sun masks these dangers."

"It wasn't until nightfall, when the sun was gone, that our senses, which had been clouded, began to detect the problem!"

Nemes suddenly climbed out of the pit, scattering a large amount of soil.

Then Nems saw a large number of church personnel appear in the sky.