Death… And Me

Chapter 1870: That Might Really Happen Someday

”This is different,” Rean couldnʼt help but say as he looked at the continental barrier in front of him.

The continental barriers so far were always made up of chaotic energies and elements. It was something that could definitely kill anyone too weak or anyone that hadnʼt adapted to it. However, the continental barrier Rean was currently looking at couldnʼt be any calmer.

Rean then looked at Fluki by his side, asking him, ”Is this really a continental barrier?”

Fluki immediately nodded with his fish head. ”No doubt about it. I heard about these kinds of continental barriers from my father. Well, itʼs my first time seeing one, of course. According to him, the continental barriers that divide the four sides of the Realm of Gods are different from the normal ones.”

Fluki continued, ”Simply put, the four regions are divided that way exactly because of this kind of continental barrier. It doesnʼt stop in the center of the Realm of Gods. Instead, it keeps going until the very end. This is obviously the Realm of Godsʼ South Continental Barrier. Well, itʼs also the same barrier heading north, east, and west. My father called it the Godsʼ Dividing Barrier. I have no idea whether thatʼs the real name or not, though. Perhaps different races use different names for it.”

Rean looked at the continental barrier and the rainbow-like colors in it. The colors appearing and disappearing moved slowly, making it easy to make them out. Rean then got closer and noticed that the usual pressure continental barriers had was nowhere to be found. If anything, he felt like it was quite relaxing to be there. ”Is the Godsʼ Dividing Barrier dangerous?”

Fluki shook his fish head, replying, ”Not really. Of course, thatʼs the case for you, whoʼs already at the Peak Stage of the Transition Realm. The sheer amount of Divine Energy in this place is obviously not something someone with low cultivation can resist.”

Rean nodded in response. He knew that if he was still in the Nascent Soul Realm or below, the Divine Energy in front of him, as calm as it may seem, would still cause damage to his body. ”Itʼs quite unfortunate that we canʼt use all this Divine Energy for cultivation.”

Fluki agreed with Rean. ”The continental barrierʼs Divine Energy had always been incompatible with most races. This one is no different. Itʼs just that it wonʼt kill you even if you enter it... or so my father told me.”

Rean touched the barrier and felt like he was handling the surface of some body of water. He could almost hold the elements contained inside it with his own hands. ”I didnʼt think I would ever be able to touch the elements in such a way. Even the elements we gather donʼt feel like this.”

”Can the elements be used then?” Luan couldnʼt help but ask.

Fluki shook his head, saying, ”Only a few races would be able to. It shouldnʼt be surprising that most of them are Continen

tal Barrier Spirits. Even I can benefit quite a little from this barrierʼs elements. However, you would still have to face the same problem at the end, which is incompatibility.”

Rean narrowed his eyes in response as an idea appeared in his mind. ”The reason why higher level experts donʼt use their Divine Energy to raise othersʼ cultivation is due to the incompatibility. Once they absorb that Divine Energy, it becomes theirs. Trying to use it on others might raise the targetʼs cultivation easier, but the damage to oneʼs foundation is permanent as well.”

Luan looked at Rean with a puzzled expression, asking him, ”What are you trying to say, Uncle Rean?”

Rean then explained, ”Canʼt you see? The reason the elements and energies are incompatible is that they arenʼt ours. The other continental barriers also have Divine Energy and elements, although theyʼre extremely chaotic and dangerous. Nevertheless, the other barriersʼ energies and elements are all the same, incompatible.”

”I might be wrong, but doesnʼt that mean the continental barrierʼs Divine Energy and elements have an owner? At the very least, I donʼt know any other location where you can find incompatible elements and Divine Energy other than the living beings themselves.”

Luan and Fluki looked at the Continental Barrier in front of them with fear in their eyes after that. If all the continental barriers were the fruit of some living being, then just how ridiculously powerful was this being? ”B-but... as far as I know, the continental barriers had been in the Realm of Gods since forever.”

”Forever?” Rean asked back. ”Were you there when the continental barriers first appeared?”

Fluki obviously shook his head in response. ”As if! I donʼt think anyone from such a time is still alive to start with.”

Rean nodded after hearing that. ”Exactly. Now then, everyone knows that the continental barriers separate the countless continents of the Realm of Gods. However, think of it this way. What if the continental barriers arenʼt here to separate the continents? What if the continental barriers are nothing more than channels through which this living being is letting its own energy escape? It just so happened that they divided the continents as a result.”

Fluki shook his head, saying, ”I refuse to believe that. Letʼs not even talk about the power such an existence would need to have. Instead, just how big would it need to be? The Realm of Gods is just ridiculously gigantic! Do you think such a creature would be big enough to release the continental barriersʼ Energy and Elements all throughout the realm?”

”Hahaha!” Rean couldnʼt help but laugh in response. ”I truly would want to see such a creature moving. Just how interesting would that be?”

Luan bitterly smiled in response. ”If this creature really tried to move, the entire Realm of Gods would experience a calamity.” &

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Rean agreed with Luan, saying, ”Thatʼs for sure. But donʼt you think itʼs funny? Itʼs like the story of Turtle Island in Canada. We might very well be living on the back of this supposed creature.”

”Canada?” Luan and Fluki were puzzled. ”Whoʼs that?”

Only then did Rean remember that Canada was a country from Earth. Those two obviously knew nothing about it. ”You two know that Iʼm not from this side of the universe, right? Canada just so happened to be a country on the planet where I first lived. Anyway, itʼs not like the entire Realm of Gods will start moving.”

[Well...] Sister Orb suddenly intervened. [That might really happen someday.]