He spread reason throughout the world, allowing everyone to gradually understand right from wrong, what should and should not be done. He also taught people about etiquette and restraint, the meaning of giving and receiving, the fact that the world cannot satisfy endless demands, and that the world itself can be destroyed—humanity would vanish along with it, and unending greed would bring about one’s own destruction. He also helped people find better ways to attain happiness, to break free from greed and desire, and still possess fulfillment and contentment.

In the end, ritual and music triumphed over savagery, and wisdom triumphed over greed. Humanity not only understood power, but also the wisdom to master it.

Ritual and music found a balance between rules and freedom, but ritual and music could not satisfy everyone. Although most people learned how to live better lives, there were still those who wished to maintain their old ways of conquest and greed. Ritual and music could overcome, but could not cure the darkness within human nature.

This war was called the War of Ritual and Music.

William Brooks once again extracted this era where humans, gods, immortals, and demons coexisted, sealing away all beings who possessed great power, transforming it into the third legendary world—this world was called the Era of Zhou Earth.

The Zhou Earth world had three thousand true gods, eight million lesser gods, and a population that grew into the billions. Those with great magical powers could command monsters, fly through the sky, burrow through the earth, summon wind and rain, and create magical artifacts of endless wonder. They revered freedom; some accepted the concepts of ritual and music and restrained their desires, while others still longed for complete freedom, unbound by any rules.

The humans of this world possessed the greatest power, held beliefs completely opposite to those of the William Brooks Heaven World and the Bolton World, and even possessed powers that could restrain William Brooks, making both William Brooks and The Bolton Dynasty unwilling to enter.

Rules could unify different people under a single order, but freedom would give rise to countless conflicts. Everyone wanted to be free and unrestrained, and each person would influence and be influenced by others.

Thus, in the Zhou Earth world that revered freedom, earth-shattering battles raged on endlessly. Everyone had their own reason to fight. Every few decades, William Brooks and The Bolton Dynasty would select a group of the most outstanding humans to enter the Zhou Earth world to keep it from collapsing.

The Zhou Earth world was the most chaotic of all worlds, having completely lost control and lacking any ruling deity.

Benjamin Brooks, the inventor of ritual and music, was appointed by William Brooks and The Bolton Dynasty as the administrator of this mythic era. However, he was not skilled in conflict; he could only quietly teach the gods and humans, demons and monsters of the Zhou Earth mythic era through ritual and music. His task was a long and arduous one.

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Heavenly Court Era——

Although the Zhou Earth world was extracted from the main world’s time and space, it still left countless traces behind.

The Zhou Earth world continued to influence the main world in various ways, but these influences were fragmented and incomplete, resulting in countless contradictions in human myths and legends, as well as various gaps and inexplicable, unexplainable phenomena.

The out-of-control Zhou Earth world would often surge back against the main world, affecting its history, shattering its time and space, and even causing time to reverse...

Although William Brooks and The Bolton Dynasty worked tirelessly to maintain order, they still could not prevent all accidents, because the Zhou Earth mythic era was simply too powerful—even possessing forbidden spells capable of sealing William Brooks.

The Bolton Dynasty always kept a close watch on the Zhou Earth mythic era. He hoped to guide the Zhou Earth world onto the right path, to become a second paradise, a shield for humanity like the Bolton mythic era.

Therefore, with William Brooks’s consent, he orchestrated an event: summoning four saviors from different mythic worlds into the Zhou Earth world to assist Benjamin Brooks in establishing the Heavenly Court. These four saviors each possessed unique abilities.

The savior from the First Mechanical Civilization had the power to transform into any mechanical creation—spaceships, laser cannons, giant robots, supercomputers, all kinds of tools and weapons—and was brave and warlike.

The youth from the Second Quantum Civilization possessed powerful psychic abilities and could manipulate souls, but his personality was utterly desireless, lacking even the motivation to save the world.

The savior from the Bolton mythic era had committed a grave crime and was originally to be executed, but The Bolton Dynasty specially pardoned him, allowing him to enter the Zhou Earth world to atone for his sins. This savior from the Bolton era possessed all kinds of divine powers, but was lazy by nature and loved to shirk responsibility.

The savior from the main world was just an ordinary boy, but he possessed the most tenacious character and the greatest perseverance. He knew that he alone had no way out—if the other three saviors failed their mission, they could still leave the Zhou Earth world and return to their own worlds, but he could not. If he failed this mission, his family, his friends, all his ancestors, the girl he liked, and even himself... would all be reduced to dust.

Therefore, in this mission, the savior from the main world never retreated, not even once. When his three companions faced an irreparable crisis and wanted to flee, he fought on without retreat. His tenacity and willpower moved his three companions, and in the end, they gave their all to fight alongside him.