Cthulhu Gonfalon Chapter 491

Chapter 491: Chapter 31
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Seeing the Queen of Water Elements make a desk and a chair with magic calmly, Sui Xiong tried one last time to refuse the conversation. He said, “I really don’t want to know the secrets of you guys, my seniors. I’m not that curious!” But the Queen of Water Elements just sat down in a relaxing way and took out a wine pot and two cups from nowhere, waiting to have a chat with Sui Xiong.
“Please have a chat with an old lady,” the Queen of Water Elements said in a very humble way, without the posture of a senior at all. But what she said was still a threat to Sui Xiong. “Or, do you young men just like to chat with beautiful young girls and not with an old lady like me?”
Sui Xiong looked at her face and shook his head.
The Ice Queen was a first-class beauty. The gods didn’t care about the length of a life span at all; so what did age matter?
“Then, where shall we start?” The Queen of Water Elements held her chin in her left hand and thought for a moment. “Well, let’s start from the very beginning.”
From the very beginning? Does she want to start with “Five hundred years ago, a stone monkey was put into prison under the Five Fingers Mountain”?
Sui Xiong muttered in his heart like that, but he was too lazy to argue with her. He picked up the wine pot and poured himself a cup of wine.
The wine in the bottle was freezing cold, and Sui Xiong felt no burning feeling in his belly after drinking it. Instead, he felt quite refreshed.
He was shocked at that. This feeling was absolutely unusual!
He knew that this small cup of wine he had drunk just now might be more valuable than one water element heart.
Well, after listening to her story, I’ll buy several water element hearts from her. I bet she surely has some in stock, those high-class ones!
“I don’t know what the world was like at the very beginning. In my impression, the world was made up of two parts, matter and spirit, that’s all.”
Sui Xiong was shocked at Queen of Water Elements’ first sentence.
What the hell… Is she going to start from the birth of heaven and earth? How long will this conversation last?!
“At that time, the material world was not divided into the outer space and the inner space yet, and all kinds of elements and energy were mixed up in a mess. Many masters were born in the midst of the chaos, and they kept fighting with each other, striving to swallow each other to grow bigger. Of course, I was one of them,” the Queen of Water Elements said. “I don’t know exactly what the spiritual world looked like at that time, but it should be about the same as the material world.”
She paused for a moment and said, “I don’t know how long this chaotic situation lasted. At last, the war in the material world was coming to an end. There were more than a dozen powerful masters born, and they were unable to defeat each other. However, they were afraid of being killed by each other, and that developed into a delicate balance. You know, balance means peace.”
Sui Xiong nodded at that. Where did peace come from? Of course, it came from balance. Only the balance between different powers could truly bring peace to the world.
It was like the situation on earth—benevolence and righteousness couldn’t bring peace to people. Only when all the countries were within the attacking range of each other’s nuclear bomb could the world be really peaceful, for there would be balance between them. There were many places caught in war on the earth when Sui Xiong space-traveled, and that was usually because neither party involved in the war had nuclear bombs.
The Middle Eastern countries were always caught in wars, why? Because they were all weak. It was very difficult for them to really threaten each other.
If they were as powerful as the Soviet Union and the United States, they could destroy each other with nuclear bombs and send each other to see God. Then presumably, there wouldn’t have been so many wars since then.
Western scholars always said that the nuclear bomb was the greatest threat to human security, and that was something Sui Xiong never agreed with!
“However, that was only the peace of our material world,” the Queen of Water Elements continued. “Since we achieved peace within ourselves and stopped fighting with each other, we had to start a war with a foreign country. I think you can understand that, right?”
“Yes, I do. I fully understand that!” Sui Xiong laughed and did not say the second half of the sentence.
You were just a group of violent fanatics. I’ve seen many types of people like this in online games. They feel uncomfortable when they can’t kill others in the game for a day. If there is no battlefield available, they will run to kill those new players in other game camps. At that time, there was a famous player. His main account in the game was named ‘Three-Crop Rice,’ and he took upon killing those new players and other players’ second accounts in the game as his career.
“So we organized a legion and marched to the spiritual world.” The Queen of Water Elements suddenly smiled in a mysterious way. “Can you guess what happened to us?”
“Most probably you met the expeditionary force of your enemy,” Sui Xiong replied.
“Yes! Before we reached the spiritual world, we met their expeditionary army,” The Queen of Water Elements laughed and said. “It seemed that we all had the same idea. Then, you can guess what happened next. There came another war, and it took even longer than the last one did. Countless masters died in the war, and countless desperate means were used. In the end, the most powerful masters in the material world, including me, came up with a crazy plan: we decided to cut off a part of the material world and use it as a throwing weapon to smash it into the spiritual world.”
Hearing the Queen of Water Elements describe such a crazy plan so easily, Sui Xiong opened his mouth widely and did not know how to evaluate it.
What the hell! A group of war fanatics! It’s insane!
“That was out of the expectation of the spiritual world. They had never thought that we could do that.” The Queen of Water Elements smiled proudly. Although she did not know how long it had been since that war, she was still very proud of it.
But her smile soon disappeared. “But we didn’t know that things would develop beyond our expectations as well. The part we cut from the material world hit the spiritual world heavily, and that not only caused great damage to the spiritual world but also created a huge circulation beyond imagination, the surging Big Circulation.”
“The Big Circulation?” Sui Xiong was stunned for a moment and could not help asking, “The Ring of the World?”
“Yes, the Big Circulation was the origin of the Ring of the World. Once the circulation started to move, it was hard to stop it, and several masters who tried to stop it were destroyed. Thus, everyone gave up on the idea to stop it, and we watched its development. With the flow of the Big Circulation, the material world and the spiritual world gradually collapsed into numerous pieces, and they were almost about to collapse completely and merge into the Big Circulation.”
Even though he knew that it did not happen in the end, Sui Xiong could not help but swallow nervously.
“In that case, there were four masters in the material world, including me, who decided to sacrifice ourselves to stabilize our world,” the Queen of Water Elements said calmly. “We purified our powers as much as possible and then tried our best to collect those pure powers and put them together, trying to form a solid core to fix the position of the material world.”
“Did you succeed?” Sui Xiong asked.
“Yes, but we also failed.”
Sui Xiong was surprised. According to the current situation of the world, the four masters who had sacrificed themselves to stabilize the world had succeeded. At present, the material world existed with the elemental world of the inner space as its core. Wasn’t that the result of what the four masters had done?
The Queen of Water Elements saw Sui Xiong’s doubts and sighed softly. “When we finally combined our powers into a solid core of matter, something unexpected happened. The core of the material world failed to reduce the power of the Big Circulation. On the contrary, it aroused the violent shock of it. The shock swept through every part of the Big Circulation in an instant, destroying almost everything and eventually turning into a terrible torrent.”
Sui Xiong was shocked. He had never heard of such a thing in this world.
“At that time, we were also in a very dangerous situation. We could only do our best to unite more closely with each other, and that was all we were concerned with. I don’t know how long it took for the torrent to subside. Only then did we realize that the world was already unconsciously divided into four parts by the torrent of the Big Circulation,” the Queen of Water Elements laughed bitterly and said. “That’s what you know as the Matter Plane, the Spirit Plane, the Positive Plane, and the Negative Plane.”
Sui Xiong suddenly realized that in the torrent, except for the Rulers of the Four Elements and a few lucky ones, all other creatures were killed. That was why there was no relevant information left.
“The world was destroyed and then rebuilt. It was empty. We looked at each other and didn’t know whether we should be happy or not.” The Queen of Water Elements sighed. “The ones that had planned to sacrifice themselves eventually survived, and all the others died. I have to say that this is a very ironic result.”
“I don’t think so,” Sui Xiong shook his head and said. “If just a few people could survive at that time, then, of course, it would be better to let those who were willing to sacrifice themselves survive.”
“The God of Virtue said something similar,” The Queen of Water Elements smiled and said. “If you are lucky to meet him, you will find that you two have something in common.”
“The God of Virtue… have you ever met the four greater Divine Powers?” Sui Xiong asked curiously.
“Of course I have. I am their senior,” the Queen of Water Elements laughed and said. “They are the projection of the Big Circulation and the embodiment of the core laws of the Four Planes of this world. The order of the Matter Plane, the good of the Positive Plane, the chaos of the Spirit Plane and the evil of the Negative Plane. When they first appeared, we thought they were just like us and took them as the new generation of the first generation of gods.”
“And then?” Sui Xiong couldn’t help asking.
“Then, we found that only four masters were born this time, but the strength of these four masters far exceeded that of our four seniors.” The Queen of Water Elements sighed. “You know, up to now, the other three of the Rulers of the Four Elements of the ancient times have all died. I am the only one alive. However, I’m just a great Divine Power. In order to become a greater Divine Power, I have spent so much time and energy and made countless attempts, but I’ve failed.”
She sighed with pity, showing disappointment on her face.
Seeing her act like that, Sui Xiong did not know how to comfort her.
What she pursued was something too high-end. It was similar to Sui Xiong having the privilege of drinking with the CEO of one of the richest companies, and then CEO says while drinking, “I have been a successful businessman in my life, and now I want to transform into a politician. I want to be the president of my country, but why there is no way for me to do that!”
Well, what should Sui Xiong say?