Simulates history, but Chongzhen is the Divine Emperor at the beginning

Chapter 183 The Qing Dynasty is Fallen
[Whatever so-called important information there is, it is no longer important to you.]

Just as people don't need to worry about how many black holes swallow up planets in space, because that's too far away and meaningless... For you, your life has already become bleak!

[You tried hard for three lifetimes, but you didn't really save anyone. No matter how hard you tried, the illusory world was still destroyed, and those billions of living people no longer existed. It was as if your three lifetimes were just a joke...]

[Since the rescue failed, you no longer have the courage or reason to live. You just want to quickly exhaust your Yin lifespan and return to a previous point in time.]

【But...what if I return? 】

"If you return, will you be able to find a way to make the illusory world exist forever? That's impossible..."

Countless historical experiences have taught you that if you want to liberate the illusory world from the Divine Emperor's dark rule, you must use force to overthrow the Divine Emperor. Because the Divine Emperor will never reason with you until he's defeated.

[But if you defeat Him, you will have to inject divine power into Him, thereby extending His lifespan and that of the illusory world. However, this injection of divine power will cause a conflict with the origins of heaven and earth, leading to the collapse of heaven and earth...]

Under these repeated blows, you no longer believe you can coexist with the Divine Emperor forever, nor do you believe you can create an eternal era of peace and prosperity.

[You even don’t want to waste time like this anymore…]

[You are crazy and tired. You just want to end this ridiculous life as soon as possible!]

[What about a peaceful and prosperous age, what about paradise in the West, what about the coexistence of humans and gods, what about saving the world, what about the secrets of the Divine Emperor, what about the origin of the "golden light from the sky"...]

【Let’s end it. Let’s all end it.】

【…】

Wang Chengen seemed to notice your frustration, and he understood it. After all, according to him, he had always been under the protection of the Divine Emperor... Therefore, he was actually observing your life from the perspective of an outsider.

He had seen a lot, and understood it all: for a savior like the Heavenly Lord to have fallen to this point, it was perfectly normal for him to feel frustrated!

When Li Zicheng's army entered the capital, the despairing Emperor chose to hang himself because of the loss of his country. Even though Li Zicheng didn't actually want to kill him... Now that Zhou Tianzun's country has been destroyed and his family has been ruined, it's only natural that he would insist on seeking death in despair.

Wang Chengen, who understood your mentality perfectly, sighed and changed the subject...

"Since Tianzun has no intention of pursuing the secrets of His Majesty and the golden light from outer space, why not chat with me about this real world?"

[“After all, in this real world, there are actually traces left by the Heavenly Lord…”]

【Um? 】

Wang Chengen's smile made you, who was silent, look up in confusion: "My traces?"

[This has to make you confused: you have lived entirely in an imaginary world this entire life, so when have you ever left any trace in the real world?]

"Does Tianzun still remember that when the illusory world was on the verge of collapse in the first period, someone from the Qing Dynasty accidentally visited the Ming Dynasty?"

Wang Chengen spoke again, and you froze for a moment before finding these distant things between the cracks in your memory...

In the 133rd year of the Chongzhen Emperor's reign, some Qing Dynasty people from the outside world unexpectedly traveled through time. This greatly surprised you at the time, and for the first time, you truly established a worldview where "the realms of illusion and reality overlap."

[However, they came and went in a hurry. After you forcibly infused divine power into the starving Divine Emperor, the collapsed heaven and earth regained stability, and those Qing Dynasty people also returned to the outside world on their own...]

【Now that you mention it, you did leave a mark here.】

Even though you were completely disheartened, you were still curious about the current situation: "How is the Qing Dynasty doing now?"

【Wang Chengen laughed.】

[“The Qing Dynasty has fallen!”] [As expected…]

Hearing this unsurprising answer, you silently began to count the years: The 133rd year of Chongzhen's reign was the 25th year of Qianlong's reign, and now it's the 325th year of Chongzhen's reign. Nearly two hundred years have passed, so the Qing Dynasty's demise is only natural...

【etc! 】

[You suddenly thought of something, so you calculated the time again, but this time you didn't use the Chinese calendar, but the Western calendar.]

The 1644th year of Chongzhen is equivalent to AD, so the th year of Chongzhen corresponds to...

“1952?!”

You can’t help but be stunned: No… This isn’t just the end of the Qing Dynasty, it’s the end of the Republic of China. New China is already three years old…

In this year, China's two thousand years of feudal monarchy came to an end, and the world had already undergone earth-shattering changes. One world-class revolution after another smashed the old era to pieces, and the entire world's atmosphere was completely different from before!

[And before today, I was still the Supreme Being in the Ming Dynasty...]

[Well, isn't this just like traveling through time again?]

You sighed with emotion, "Things are different now..."

[However, this is also a good thing. After all, the people in the real world do not need to worry about the rule of the Divine Emperor like in the illusory world, nor do they need to use divine power to maintain the survival of the world.]

[And they have already pushed down all the mountains of the past. Even if they haven't yet built a truly ideal world, they will be able to build it with their own hands sooner or later in the future. Because the material world has infinite possibilities, as long as they don't stop, the road will continue to expand!]

[In contrast, in the virtual world, even if you could truly overcome all the difficulties associated with divine power, it would not change the false nature of the world: the laws are chaotic, the technology tree is locked, and the entire world may appear normal at first glance, but upon closer inspection, it is a mess of magic...]

Therefore, the best outcome for the illusory world is simply to become a giant "cradle," where things will never undergo substantial change, just like the "eternal immutability and eternal stability" that the Qing Dynasty rulers longed for!

[The difference between illusion and reality lies here...]

[This makes you even more curious about what traces those "Qing Dynasty time travelers" left on history: "May I ask, did those people back then leave any influence on the world?"]

"Influence? Of course!"

Wang Chengen nodded heavily, then slowly reminisced.

"Ever since they returned in the 25th year of the Qianlong Emperor's reign, they have longed for the Great Ming Dynasty under your rule, and have held the Qianlong Emperor's reign of prosperity in the highest contempt."

"Under this contrast, they began to form secret societies and spread the belief in Tianzun's Western Paradise... But unlike your fabricated Western Paradise, they believed that the Great Ming Kingdom was the Western Paradise..."

"With this in mind, their goal became to find a way to return to the Great Ming Kingdom, or to bring the Kingdom of Heaven down to earth..."

【Um? 】

[Hearing this, you immediately felt a sudden shock: "Guidance? How?"]

Wang Chengen slowly uttered two words.

"Sacrifice..."

【you:……】

……

(End of this chapter)