Starting with Growing Mushrooms-Chapter 372 - 288: Despairing Ruins, Undersea World

Chapter 372: Chapter 288: Despairing Ruins, Undersea World

The vast flood contained astonishingly immense energy that poured back in.

Just when everyone thought they were about to face death, the flood seemed to have been absorbed into another unknown space, vanishing completely.

"We didn’t die?"

"This mysterious ocean we’ve entered, have we entered some void world?"

"Could it be entering the world of death?"

Some strong individuals continued to discuss fervently.

Some even attempted to use their divination methods to try and foresee these powers.

Unfortunately, the divination results were of no use.

But they had completely received the message: "In this world, only God, the Goddess of Destiny, the Longevity Divine Spirit, and other divine spirits are undivinable... Surely, it has something to do with them!"

"Could it be yet another conceptual world has emerged?"

"The Age of Gods is becoming more and more mysterious and awe-inspiring."

...

While everyone was discussing, the ancient land of longevity underwent enormous changes.

The Longevity Divine Spirit extended a hand, slowly tearing apart this region of the Longevity Tree, submerging it into the seawater as if it were an island.

With ripples rolling out in circles.

This area surrounding the Longevity Tree was wholly submerged into a new spatial ocean.

"Not bad," Liu Jun nodded slightly at this scene, going for the effortless steal of resources.

The Sona civilization that others described so arduously didn’t manage to create an artificial ocean, yet he succeeded effortlessly within his Mushroom Soup.

That’s how absurd cheating is.

Beside him, Amber Swallowtail Butterfly and others couldn’t help but exclaim at the scene, "Is this our new home then?"

"You’ll adapt soon enough."

God said, "Now that the Mythical Era is growing stronger, even the Death God is about to appear. Only by relocating our secluded place here can we enjoy eternal peace."

The other members of the Butterfly Race also laughed cheerfully, finding it quite reasonable.

They were naturally kind-hearted and didn’t want to be disturbed.

And they were faintly worried.

The Death God stood opposed to the Longevity Divine Spirit!

The current relocation of the Longevity Divine Spirit might also be in preparation against the impending Death God.

Then, Liu Jun thought for a moment,

"I will bestow upon you the Power of Space within you. You will then possess the ability to swim freely in this ocean."

"However, this divine power will become ineffective once depleted, and I will use Newborn Divine Power to ensure a continuous renewal of Space Divine Power within you."

As soon as he finished speaking, the leaders of the Butterfly Race realized they now had a mysterious power within them.

Next.

Liu Jun spent three to four days managing this spatial ocean, allowing it to lay perfectly beneath the star of his Mushroom Soup World.

Thereafter, others could conveniently transition and teleport through this spatial ocean...

Soon, the butterflies began adapting to the environment.

They not only formed cocoons here but also flew gracefully through space, becoming space butterflies cruising the spatial ocean.

On this day.

The Truth Angel also ventured into this developing spatial seawater, exclaiming:

"I had earlier suspected it might be you, the Longevity Divine Spirit, causing that magnificent phenomenon."

God had exchanged low-level Space Divine Power from the Longevity Divine Spirit.

It was reasonable for the Longevity Divine Spirit to possess an advanced Space Divine Object.

"You’re just in time."

The Longevity Divine Spirit glanced at the other party, "You hold the divine position of space storage. This spatial ocean can henceforth serve as a storeroom, allowing the creatures of the era to store their items here."

The Truth Angel nodded, "This is my duty, and I will naturally fulfill it."

From then on, the Truth Angel transformed into a Space Angel, contributing to the space ocean.

Liu Jun now had new diligent workers here.

In a mere two years.

The entire spatial ocean was brimming with prosperity.

Each thread hung a package submerged in the seawater.

Countless packages floated in the seawater, turning the spatial ocean into a colossal storage bank.

The other ends of the lines connected to spatial rings.

And the Butterfly Race living in this ocean could freely peek and retrieve treasures stored by others in the spatial ocean.

At this moment.

Amber Swallowtail Butterfly had already developed a penchant for peeking, delighting in snooping through one underwater package after another,

"Hehe, why are this person’s personal items so revealing? Oh? Why does she even have such books? And they’re collector’s editions? Hidden secretly in the spatial ring?"

"Pah, let me appreciate them a bit!"

The Longevity Tree Butterfly Race was no longer bored, frequently peeking into others’ spatial ring privacy.

Liu Jun found it somewhat speechless but didn’t overly interfere.

Seeing that the spatial ocean was improving, as the Longevity Divine Spirit, he planned an outing to explore the spatial ocean outside.

"I wonder if there truly will be an undersea train?"

Liu Jun took a step, leaving his constructed Mushroom Soup artificial ocean, stepping into the black void outside.

His eyes slightly lowered, glancing at the vast floating God Continent outside.

He didn’t linger.

The spatial perspective opened, witnessing a calm spatial ocean.

Most of the spatial ocean was like this, with a very stable surface, but underwater there were surging undercurrents.

Whoosh!

He quickly dove into the spatial ocean, endlessly diving into the countless ocean currents.

He soon saw some wreckage of small spacecraft, "This emblem is, the civilization of Deep Divers that we tamed?"

But claiming to be deep diving, it’s really just like that.

They can barely perform jumps, still a way off from the level of civilization that can build space trains.

So some of the troops died along the way before.

Liu Jun stopped thinking about it and continued to dive, as waves of violent deep-sea currents relentlessly came at him.

He was fearless, concealing himself, locking in his state... Who could detect him in this world?

Well, except for Chaos.

Dive, dive!

When Liu Jun dove deep enough, a larger current hit from afar, and he saw the wreckage of a train.

That piece of wreckage seemed like a giant dragon slumbering among the stars, enormous like a celestial body, exuding an ancient desolate aura.

But under the impact of the ocean currents at the seabed, it was tossed around like a rope.

"Is there really something?"

Liu Jun was momentarily dazed.

Could Sona’s guess be true?

The cosmos is so desolate because you Sixth Tier old civilizations killed your parents and ran off with your belongings to dive,

only to be drowned by space turbulence?

Did they sink the planets on land into the seafloor?

Liu Jun couldn’t help but complain for a bit. He thought about it and continued diving.

He also used the stolen Star Rushing Lightning Divine Power to start accelerating his movement.

A year.

Two years.

The surroundings were still turbulent.

The "water pressure" was getting deeper, causing Liu Jun to feel a bit silent.

At this time, he already felt he had wasted a lot of time.

This was the flow rate of the real cosmos compared to the Mushroom Soup World, where probably thousands of years had passed.

But he thought about it.

Still not wanting his previous efforts to go to waste, he continued to dive.

In the fourth year, he finally felt he had reached the seabed, where the currents were no longer so frequent but rather dead silent.

He also saw that the seabed was littered with the dense wreckage of civilizations, like heaps of scrap in a garbage dump.

"All trash, no civilization?"

He thought about it and decided to move horizontally, conducting a flat exploration.

As he explored all the way, collecting relic information from the ruins, he discovered these civilizations were a desperate epitaph.

[Tungsten Civilization: Useless, still useless, this path is also wrong! We failed, all our efforts to dive to the seabed to build a new world were mistaken! We simply couldn’t breakthrough to the Seventh Tier!]

[Spirit Ear Civilization: Here, we only unlocked four shackles, there are still eight more, which must be unlocked elsewhere in the cosmos, we must go back, find other methods... But we can’t float up anymore! We are lost in the deepest space turbulences!]

[Fire Freeze Civilization: Hate! Hate! Hate! Another wrong path, we can’t turn back anymore, we can only gather the fallen debris here to survive as a scavenger civilization.]

[Stone Room Civilization: Opened four shackles in deep space diving, what about the other eight? There must be other areas in the cosmos to unlock them, but how do we return? The difficulty of returning surpasses diving by numerous times!]

This was something Liu Jun could instantly understand.

When swimming, diving requires no effort, just sink to the end.

But trying to float up, you have to overcome sinking, face various impactful ocean currents...

As Liu Jun walked, it was like moving through a cemetery of despair, witnessing their sighs and cries of despair during their lives.

He felt the boundless desperation and sorrow from one civilization to another.

These ruins bury the records of their past glories.

And the information was immense.

Twelve shackles, and in this space of the new world, they only unlocked four?

Other places in the cosmos are where they might continue to unlock the remaining eight locks?

"But we cheat, biting with our mouths, unlocking all twelve shackles together, skipping over your specific breakthrough environments,

we are already researching how to adapt to the surge of growth after unlocking without causing collapse, having developed twelve trials."

Suddenly Liu Jun felt the outer cosmos was even more backward than imagined, even more desperate.

He already had such a premonition, they were trash, being crazily fished by my home’s forgetful little dog of fate...

Now it’s confirmed again.

This crippled Seventh Tier Goddess of Destiny, is she the forefront of this cosmos?

A Seventh Tier who can’t even beat God, but still a Seventh Tier!

Half a year later, Liu Jun still hadn’t given up, continued to wander in this wasteland, and finally saw a light, which was a living scavenger civilization, albeit a bit lifeless, struggling to survive.

This gave Liu Jun a trace of joy, "There really is something!"

He cautiously opened his concealment.

Sensing across the void the auras of powerful beings inside, to see if there were any terrifying beings.

The result was something that left Liu Jun speechless: "How is it still the level of the 175th Divine Era, as expected, no Seventh Tier."

Seeing this scene, Liu Jun was completely disillusioned, not glad of his lead, but sighing instead: This cosmos is too hopeless.

The Sixth Tier, not only committed to fratricide, but even breaking through to the Seventh Tier is this frustrating to the point of collapse!

If the Sona civilization described in the introduction truly existed, then after obtaining the Space Divine Object, diving into the deep space, establishing a new world, they still couldn’t breakthrough to the Seventh Tier, faced once more with a collapse of life’s beliefs.

"This cosmos is too barren, too backward, let me construct a new cosmic order to perfect the bottleneck of the Seventh Tier."

Seeing this scene, Liu Jun finally stopped hesitating.

He bowed his head, looking at the wreckage of civilizations in the ruins, lying within a gigantic civilization space train.

"Centipedal Tribe, I command you to rise in the ruins; the new cosmic myth is born."

Crack! Crack!

Within the ruins, among the dead debris of civilization, corpses filled with despair and pain slowly gleamed in their eyes, crawling up from the lakebed, shakily standing, issuing tender voices:

"If it is your will, I shall obey."