mesbooks Chapter 1276: The Belonging of the Universe and the Destiny of All Living Beings
Chapter 1276: The Belonging of the Universe and the Destiny of All Living Beings
Before Yingji could react, a scale was stuffed into his arms.
This scale was exactly what the Spirit Snake God gave to Ji Wushuang. She thought it was gone, but it turned out that it was gradually integrated into her soul during her subsequent training.
It can be said that this scale has helped her a lot and is the "bond" between her and the past.
And now, she put the treasure she couldn't let go of the most in the "scales" and handed it to Yingji.
"What's this?"
"It's my partner."
As he spoke, Ji Wushuang suddenly condensed his spiritual sense into a sharp sword and slashed towards Yingji, scaring him so much that his face turned green.
However, the sword did not kill Yingji, but the vague connection between Ji Wushuang and the scales.
"Zheng——"
Everyone only felt a soft ringing in their ears, and a brilliant golden light shot up into the sky, like a river of intertwined laws, grand and boundless. This river recorded the past, present, and carried the future.
Finally, this river of golden light transformed into a mysterious and vast scroll, which slowly gathered in Yingji's palm. It was engraved with inscriptions representing the origin and mystery, and it was shining brightly.
Everyone was stunned and couldn't recover for a long time.
"what is this?"
"Is it... the innate Menghong supreme treasure... the Diagram of Heavenly Evolution?!"
"This……"
Ji Wushuang smiled and said, "No, this is my most important partner."
When Tian Yan woke up, he found that he had been "kicked" out of his soul by Ji Wushuang, and was completely dumbfounded.
"Ji Wushuang! What are you doing!?"
"Ji Wushuang!"
"How dare you throw me out!"
"You're crazy! You're going to die! Come back soon!!!"
The Tianyantu rushed back almost instantly, trying to merge with Ji Wushuang's soul again, but was blocked outside by a dazzling and colorful light.
"Netherworld Qi?!"
It was not until this moment that Tianyantu realized that the truly pure Nether Qi was not pitch black, a single dark color, but was so magnificent and splendid.
Also.
"Ming" is the place where the origin of the universe returns.
How could it be in such a dilapidated and lonely state?
It is the place where the dead return.
It is also the beginning of life.
It is the most gentle and pure power in the world.
Just like Ji Wushuang's smile.
Just like now...
She shook it and chuckled softly in the dancing starlight. The wound caused by the severing of the soul did not feel unusual at all, because the souls entwined with Ji Wushuang had automatically filled it in. Whether it was the souls that had become ghosts, the souls that had wandered the void for years, or the souls that had just died not long ago and were collected by Ji Wushuang along the way...
They all seemed to have a pious look as if they were offering sacrifices, and they took the initiative to jump into Ji Wushuang's "wound".
In addition, countless original stars also automatically merged into Ji Wushuang's body.
The floating starlight slowly lifted Ji Wushuang's long hair, making her appearance hazy, like an illusory dream that had never happened.
"Ji Wushuang!"
"Ji Wushuang!"
Tianyan wanted to grab her, but Ji Wushuang smiled and waved at him.
"Go back to find Meng Hong, Tai Xu and the others. They are waiting for you... If you still remember me, please say hello for me. If not, there is no need to say more... Take care of yourself... Goodbye, thank you, Tian Yan."
As more and more ghosts and stars rushed into Ji Wushuang's body through the scars, she fell back lightly and jumped into the boundless abyss...
“Ji Wushuang!!!”
Tianyan wanted to follow, but Yingji grabbed the scales and pulled him back. Then he flew over and suppressed Tianyan. Seeing this, other powerful men immediately followed and pounced on him, one after another suppressing the restless Tianyantu.
"Oh no! This place seems to be collapsing! Yingji! Let's run!!!"
"What the hell are you arguing about! Quickly press down the Tianyan Diagram!"
"Holy crap! Is Meng Hong's treasure so powerful?!"
"Run!!!!"
In the end, Yingji successfully unfolded Xumi and led everyone away from the collapsed Guixu land. However, they did not dare to stay and continued to flee with Tianyan...
Because the space behind them is collapsing at an incredible speed...
The powerful men ran with fear in their hearts.
"It's over, it's over. Will this collapse ever stop?"
"..."
can you?
Everyone looked at the Guixu that was sinking into nothingness, listened to the sound coming from Botai Wuji, and lost their confidence for the first time. Finally, they all cast their eyes on the silent Tianyantu.
It just stared into the depths of nothingness without blinking. If it weren't for the golden light shining around it, the powerful people would have thought it was a piece of waste paper.
After an unknown amount of time, when even the strong wind blowing through the void seemed to carry the aura of the dead, the Tianyantu finally spoke: "Don't you have the power to move heaven and earth? Take your universe and leave... This world will soon return to silence..."
"what?!"
"This……"
They have so many universes and so many lives, how can they leave?!
The Tianyantu seemed to have heard their complaints and said coldly, "How would I know that? If you don't want to leave, then jump in and serve as fuel for Xiao Wushuang."
Everyone: "..."
How could everyone not understand what was happening before their eyes?
Because the underworld has fallen, the underworld sea has dried up, and the underworld has been exhausted...
Therefore, Ji Wushuang, the last one who was carrying the dark energy, became the final "destination".
It was not until this moment that Yingji and the others understood why the souls followed Ji Wushuang consciously. It was not because she could show them the way home, but because... she was the way home...
Ji Wushuang chose to transform into the underworld.
Maybe it will succeed.
Maybe it's failure.
No one knows the outcome.
But until the end, she did not regret her decision...
Although they had only known each other for a short time, they still couldn't help but sigh. They even thought that perhaps this was Ji Wushuang's intention in asking them to come - to let them witness despair and the last glimmer of hope in despair. As for whether they were willing to seize it or not, Ji Wushuang would not interfere too much.
Tianyantu turned and left, not forgetting to urge Yingji: "What are you standing there for? Let's go."
Yingji quickly followed...
"Let's go too!"
"Yes, let's do it together!"
……
Because of Ji Wushuang, the star disk of the universe began to separate and rotate after this day, moving towards a completely unknown direction.
As for Ji Wushuang herself, she was in a very delicate state - stagnation.
Everything disappeared, and she was the only one left in the law.
Neither birth nor death.
Neither existent nor indestructible.
Time and loneliness have become eternal here.
Ji Wushuang didn't mind, because she still had very important things to do... After the Tianyantu left her soul, countless memories gathered together, and Ji Wushuang finally knew what she had forgotten.
——Kill Yan.
The existence that she had once carved into her soul with her own hands gradually drifted away from her as her strength increased step by step.
It seemed as if everything was just her fantasy, her extravagant hope.
And now...
Ji Wushuang placed her hand on her chest. Although there were no beating organs there, she could still feel the pounding of her heart. This sincere and passionate emotion was not false or fake.
Zhu Yan really existed. He had stayed in her life and given her unprecedented love, protection and tenderness.
He once helped her find the anchor point for her return in the vast Guixu.
He also pulled her back to reality when she was wandering away from the world.
How could such a cruel act be her "imagination"?
"Zhu Yan..."
As she gently exclaimed, the originally stagnant time and space quietly flowed, and Ji Wushuang also saw a shadow from the torrent...
The man seemed to be looking at her, and seemed to be looking through her into an even lonelier abyss.
After a long time, he slowly stood up, his exquisite and gorgeous face slowly passed through the mist and appeared in front of Ji Wushuang, slowly overlapping with the person in her memory.
——Kill Yan.
Zhu Yan showed no emotion, just calmly and silently looking at himself in the depths of Guixu.
For a long time.
Just when Ji Wushuang thought it was her hallucination, Zhu Yan spoke in a gentle tone: "Where are Man Man and Tian Yan? Why... did you come anyway?"
His voice was gentle and kind, like intoxicating wine, but it made Ji Wushuang's eyes sore.
He really knows everything.
So was it because of him that she gradually forgot about him in the beginning?
Ji Wushuang's heart seemed to be blocked by a bunch of thorns. Even though she had become a "conscious" person, she still felt the pain and bitterness.
She tried to move closer to him, but found that there seemed to be an invisible chasm between them.
But she is obviously the same as him?
Why can't I get close?
"Don't you have anything to say?" Ji Wushuang asked softly.
Zhu Yan was silent for a long time, raised his hand as if wanting to touch her, and finally slowly put it down, with his fingertips slightly closed, as pale as a handful of light snow.
"You and I should never have known each other..."
Ji Wushuang stared at Zhu Yan for a long time, then suddenly snorted coldly and said, "You should be thankful that my temper is much better now, but it's too late for you to regret it now."
Zhu Yan's body stiffened slightly, as if he had remembered something. Then he chuckled helplessly, "It's not that I regret it, but I feel... I shouldn't be so selfish."
Ji Wushuang couldn't help but take two steps towards Zhu Yan, but was eventually isolated from that special sky. "Why are you being selfish?"
Zhu Yan raised her eyes, and her long eyelashes cast a thick shadow on her face.
"Ji Wushuang."
"Ah."
"look……"
Zhu Yan opened her palms. Beneath her snow-white skin, something similar to Dao text flowed, but it wasn't just any Dao text...
"what is this?"
"It's eternity..." Zhu Yan clenched his hands, "Eternal nothingness... In other words, I'm not actually a real existence, because I can shuttle back and forth between all the different voids, because I myself am an existence without order. But you are different. You are a living, vibrant river, constantly rushing towards the future and hope, while I... I am a phantom left behind by time and history books..."
Zhu Yan controls the underworld and death, and is known as the Lord of the Underworld of Chaos, but at the same time, he is trapped there forever.
He can be in any form, any age, and can travel through different nodes in every universe... but... he cannot change his predetermined fate.
For example, he could not reverse the collapse destined by the expansion of the underworld's disorder, nor could he reverse the disintegration destined by the flow of the universe's disorder.
Everything from the universe to the underworld is irreversible. Even if he is the Lord of the Underworld and can travel freely between different nodes, he cannot control it.
In the end, the whole world will fall into eternal silence.
And he.
In the cycle of events, I have witnessed countless images of disaster, pain, widespread grief, and tragic events.
In fact...
Everyone was wrong.
Not only the Lord of Colorful Infinity, but also the Tree of Void, the Lords of the Major Universes, Ji Wushuang, and so on.
The underworld, the underworld sea, the underworld, etc. did not disappear as Ji Wushuang and the others imagined. They had expanded to the brink of danger and were about to turn into a torrent of disorder and swallow everything.
At that time, the universe will become a dark void close to absolute zero, and no life or structure can be maintained.
This is the destination of the universe and the destiny of all living beings.
As the Lord of Disorder and the Lord of the Underworld, Zhu Yan understands this better than anyone else.
But in the end...
He still made mistakes.
Earlier, in order to seek the balance and peace of disorder and delay the arrival of eternal silence, he sealed his own power and memory and went to the edge of the vast underworld to practice Taoism.
Although he is in charge of death, he has never known what "death" is.
If he wants to sense death, he must sense life.
The relationship between life and death is interdependent.
Unexpectedly, on the shore of the Nether Sea, he met Ji Wushuang, well, to be precise, Ji Wushuang who had turned into a "corpse".
She knew that she was a corpse, but she was so sentimental that she fished him out of the underworld, and even dug a hole to bury him.
Thinking of the original scene, Zhu Yan felt like laughing.
If he had memories, nothing would have happened...
But because he has no memory, he has a name, and also a concern that he cannot let go of in the future...
——Kill Yan.
——Kill Yan.
[Especially your eyes, they are so beautiful that they make the beautiful scenery of the heavens pale in comparison. How about you call yourself Zhu Yan?]
[Kill... Yan? ]
[Yes, when you open your eyes, you can make the sea of stars dim, you can kill all the colors in the sky, you can kill your face, how beautiful it sounds.]
Hearing his own name and looking at the "half-little corpse" covered with bruises in front of him, Zhu Yan did not refuse her approach and was "forced" to follow her.
She talks a lot.
Nagging.
As if he knows no fatigue.
Like an annoying and noisy bird.
She was even filled with compassion and wanted to save him from the underworld.
She asked him the conditions for his leaving. He was reluctant to answer at first, but later he was really annoyed and told her the "truth".
[Yes, that means finding someone to guard the Nether Sea in my place.]
At that time, Zhu Yan did not think that Ji Wushuang would let him leave. She might even attack her like all the "living dead" who wanted to be resurrected in the past.
Unexpectedly, Ji Wushuang asked back.
Is it that simple?
Zhu Yan's face turned cold. He told her that guarding the Nether Sea was not eternal life, but endless suffering. Even without memories, Zhu Yan still had a resistance to "eternal existence" deep in her consciousness...
In the emptiness and disorder of eternal life, sometimes it is more painful than death.
Ji Wushuang grinned with his big white teeth.
"I know. I'll guard the Nether Sea for you, and you can go home. Isn't that good?"
[Do you know that time does not flow here? It is an eternal prison. Eternity, do you understand? Even if you regret it in the future, you will never be able to break free from here...]
[But here there is no hunger or cold, no killing or fighting, no scheming or conspiracy, no deception or self-deception, no comparisons between relatives, no oppression or ridicule among clansmen... From another perspective, isn't this an eternal paradise?]
Her question left Zhu Yan silent for a moment.
Zhu Yan suddenly understood that this special small, thin "corpse" that had accidentally broken in, inherited the power of time and the blood of Mother Earth, had not grown up in love and expectations.
She said she had always been alone.
Since he would be alone wherever he went, it would be better to let him be free.
At least he seemed to yearn for freedom, while her hands were already stained with blood, from humans, demons, good people, bad people, those with grudges, those without grudges...
Too much too much.
Even later, she didn't know why she fought or why she killed.
She is tired.
She didn't want to kill him either.
It seems like it would be nice to be able to put down the sword of killing forever here.
Her strength and determination surprised him and made him look sideways. A strange and complex emotion quietly spread in Zhu Yan's heart...
It was a long, long time before Zhu Yan understood what that "emotion" was.
That was the moment he softened.
That was also the moment he made a mistake.