Chapter 419: Path to Divinity Death God's Immortality

To be alive is to eventually die.

Only a dead god, the God of Death, can achieve true immortality.

This seemed like an absurd, even illogical, fallacy, yet Zhao Shirou was trembling, silent, and shaking all over.

Only a dead god can achieve true immortality...

To live in a dream, to live in memories...

This was the Ishdarian people's final plan to cope with extinction...

As thoughts collided and converged, her mind gradually cleared, and an incredible idea emerged.

"The God Race Immortality Project' is actually a way to achieve alternative immortality through death.... But what appears to be a human salvation plan is, in fact, a special method of godhood researched by Ishdarian scientists, isn't it?" Zhao Shirou became excited.

Xu Zhi looked at her.

"I should have guessed it long ago! The Ishdarians would never give up the idea of advancing to Tier 8! They must have been secretly researching a way to both achieve godhood and maintain balance.... This is a special method of becoming a god. Our brains are like computers; they can be programmed and can render online games.... Circuit boards, memory, can be combined to form a world...."

Zhao Shirou paced back and forth among the ruins, her steps ceaseless, constantly thinking, her eyes growing brighter and brighter. "If I'm not mistaken, Emperor Sakura's brain is now an online game world, a realistic online game similar to *Mechanical Revolution*. Countless Ishdarians can live within it.... This is the sanctuary established by the ultimate plan!"

Xu Zhi smiled.

With the current technological advancement of the Ishdarians, virtual online games had long blurred the lines between reality and simulation, becoming incredibly real, to the point where one couldn't detect any falsehood.

"What an incredibly insane idea! To let a trustworthy Ishdarian become a god, establish a sanctuary within their brain, and continue Ishdarian civilization!"

Zhao Shirou continued to ponder intently. "Using her brain to create an 'online game world,' gathering surviving humans to live within it, turning it into a sanctuary. They would begin to live within her memories, becoming part of the 'dream' in her mind. In that dream-like society, all potential threats would be completely eliminated, allowing for the realization of this perfect society.... A utopia truly exists only in dreams!"

She spoke incoherently,

"This is the Ishdarians' final plan to counter the destruction caused by those three problems."

"Lady Caroline, who consumed 1,731 of the top human elites from the research institute, actually just absorbed the scientists' souls into her brain. They are now living in her internal 'online game world,' and within that virtual online research institute, those more than a thousand people are still advising her."

"And Hailan Dong, along with billions of merfolk, were also absorbed into the online game, becoming over a billion residents there, a part of her mind's memories.... Lady Caroline likely has a bold and insane plan to create an identical ancient lava continent within her own mind, absorbing all living beings from the world!"

"Seemingly bestowing death, but in reality bestowing eternal life! This is the immortality of the God of Death!"

"Those individuals, as energy, integrated into her brain core, becoming a part of her body, enhancing her cultivation toward godhood. They also transformed into small figures in her dream, continuing to live in another virtual world."

Xu Zhi nodded, smiling.

This was indeed a peculiar method of achieving godhood, almost inconceivable.

It was akin to a 'computer host' becoming a god, killing external individuals, transforming them into strings of data, and absorbing them into its computer program. This was life within an internal 'online game world.'

A flower, a world; a leaf, a bodhi.

It was truly astonishing; this was a method of godhood evolved from 'virtual reality' technology.

The Ishdarian method of godhood blended technology with the supernatural, essentially using the brain's circuitry to collect energy, create an online game world, and then achieve godhood through it!

"This is the immortality of the God of Death."

Zhao Shirou stated earnestly, "However, Ishdarians who died before achieving godhood... they truly died. That is irreversible. But now, Lady Caroline's brain is a 'god-achieving' computer host, a new gathering place for humanity, the beginning of a new perfect social system!"

Her eyes were enchanted, as if she were immersed in that newly opened future. "No one knows that a vast human civilization lives within the mind of Empress Sakura; she is the guardian of the entire civilization's tomb!"

"We were originally individual computers, certain programs, now simply gathered together.... Is this a new beginning after a great catastrophe.... Is it ascension to a higher dimension? The entire Ishdarian people have moved into a higher dimension of existence."

Zhao Shirou marveled, perhaps this was the true beginning of the Ishdarian civilization's perfection!

Creating paradise for the living in life,and sparing the deceased from hell after death.

Caroline, the Corpse God, the guardian of the entire Ishdarian civilization's tomb,

"The first god born from the Corpse Race, guarding the remains of the previous civilization."

Xu Zhi's expression was calm, finding it all very interesting, as if it were predestined. He chuckled, "It seems the entire civilization has died and perished, but in reality, it continues to exist in some form within someone's brain, transformed into a corner of her memories, becoming a dream of her life!"

Is it truly memory?

Which is real, reality or a dream?

Xu Zhi suddenly mused, this was a unique idealist method of achieving godhood. On Earth, were the characters in online games truly fake? Were they virtual?

Truth and falsehood, reality and illusion, who can truly distinguish them?

Regardless, this was an entirely new path to godhood, one that astonished even Xu Zhi! It was an immense surprise!

The terrifying wisdom of this Ishdarian civilization had evolved something unimaginable, pioneering a method of godhood with infinite potential.

"This path to godhood is simply extraordinary. A world is merely a corner of his memory, and all beings in the world are nothing but a fleeting dream within his mind...." Xu Zhi fell silent. This path to godhood would be no less potent than the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique or the Cthulhu evil gods; its potential was even greater.

"Furthermore, this is a path to godhood for a creator, albeit a non-physical one, akin to an online game world.... Within one's brain, creating worlds and nurturing sentient beings can still provide incense offerings and lead to continuous strengthening... This is a sustainable cycle, a path that can generate its own energy, similar to the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique experimenting with life forms within the body.... Perhaps, Caroline's path to godhood, nurturing a civilization... could be called what?"

Xu Zhi paused, startled. He, a creator, now had another creator under him.... It was truly bizarre.