"Sacrificial ceremonies and worship in the human world are essentially a manifestation of fear."
Hu Ma's face lit up with joy at the revelation in my words, while Monkey Wine shared a sense of pleasure for having glimpsed the truth.
He laughed and said to Hu Ma, "Just like the ancient ancestors who feared thunderstorms and worshiped them, imagining gods controlling them and punishing the human world, it's the same thing."
"The difference is, you're closer to Tai Sui, and through generations of accumulation by the Daluo Dharma Sect, you can indeed use certain rituals to invoke the power of Tai Sui, which is part of exploration."
"Of course, it's too simplistic, knowing only the surface but not the reason behind it. So, when the Duyi Ancestor carelessly disturbed Tai Sui during its war with our civilization, the terrifying consequences came upon your world."
"To unravel this appearance, one must understand the principle behind human worship and sacrificial ceremonies."
"Humans are born with the instinct to explore the unknown, yet also the fear of it. In fear, they imagine gods, using their devotion to preserve themselves before such powers, seeking protection."
"In exploration, they rise to probe it, understand it, and even master it."
"..."
Hu Ma looked at Monkey Wine with a gaze of slight admiration, lightly chuckling, "Therefore, whenever Tai Sui is mentioned, we all feel how terrifying it is, indescribable, a horror beyond words."
"But in fact, there is nothing indescribable!"
"..."
Monkey Wine nodded gently, showing faint appreciation on his face, smiling, "This is the first time I feel proud of our thoughts."
"When this thing appeared in our world, it was indeed indescribable and beyond characterizing, so we first felt fear, and shortly after, our civilization was destroyed by it."
"Yet we did not give up fighting because of it!"
His usually calm face was now filled with pride, slowly saying, "If we talk about indescribability, then throughout the universe, there are far too many indescribable things."
"Thunderstorms, floods, earthquakes, wildfires in ancient times were all indescribable to the ancestors."
"From past to present, across lives, is it really different? Now when we view Tai Sui, is there any difference from how ancient humans viewed lightning and earthquakes?"
"Facing indescribable things, understanding what they actually are is the only correct path, at least in our culture, in the eyes of those who will become Tai Sui's inner demons and wage war against it, even if crushed to dust..."
"...There's only what is not yet understood, nothing truly indescribable."
"..."
Speaking this, he looked at the gigantic, boundless meat mountain, small as an ant in comparison, yet towering:
"When lightning flashes across the night sky, when tsunamis rush towards the human world, when deep earth rumbles, when floods engulf the farmlands, when drought scorches like fire, withered crops."
"You bow to them, understandable, but ineffective; no matter how afraid you are, what's coming will come anyway; only when you muster the courage to start exploring their true essence will you gradually understand..."
"It turns out, all of this has traces to follow!"
"..."
Saying this, he took a long sigh and lifted his gaze towards the immense, boundless meat mountain, sprawling across the universe, his voice deep: "Tai Sui is not an Evil God."
"In my opinion, it is merely a phenomenon existing within the universe, a kind of tide, an unconscious yin soul born from the death of countless civilizations, a negative spiritual energy field; thus it is drawn to civilizations, right yin and yang, positive and negative poles."
"Tai Sui is pure, but civilizations are mixed; so when Tai Sui comes into contact with civilization, it generates endless peculiarity and peculiarity, presenting phenomena and laws beyond human comprehension, causing panic."
"Some worship it, some trade with it, finding seemingly some effect, thus growing further in fear and devotion, inadvertently becoming part of the bizarre."
"Whether it's us or you, in resisting Tai Sui, is it truly resisting Tai Sui, or resisting the impurities of their own civilization?"
"..."
He said this and couldn't help but laugh: "Humans, often scare themselves; civilizations are the same."
"I think countless tribes and civilizations have encountered Tai Sui, and were devoured by it, they must have different names and perceptions for Tai Sui, various aspects witnessed."
"But did they ultimately lose to Tai Sui, or did they lose to themselves?"
"This is quite an interesting question."
"In my conjecture, all civilizations facing Tai Sui are equal, because ultimately, the adversary they face is always just themselves."
"Choosing to kneel and worship or stand to face Tai Sui is the biggest challenge every civilization must confront."
"..."
Listening to Monkey Wine's insights over twenty years, Hu Ma felt solace, pondering deeply, unknowingly overwhelmed by some fear.
Whether Douyi as shepherds for Tai Sui, or the State Preceptor's construction of White Jade City, or other methods, seemed reasonable at first in the human world, but upon further reflection, appeared to be walking a tightrope.
Being shepherds for Tai Sui was like facing a tsunami, casting countless cows and sheep into the sea, hoping the Dragon King would quell his anger and retract his Divine Skills, what difference does it make?
