Free Web NovelChapter 259: Chapter 63: Kind Father Bai Yuan
The lake’s grievous sin was completely consumed by those white mists, each one heavier than the last, hiding the world’s fury in its scarlet rooms and fog.
The ultimate decision concerns the Divine Lake and the white mists.
...It’s all rather abstract, since Bai Yuan hasn’t any proof of what kind of residual thoughts might linger.
Those angry states slipped into following the death of a dear friend... But Bai Yuan was also definitely in that mist.
Even without last words or seeing his family, knowing he’d die in that realm of death, Bai Yuan thought the same as Well, that it was all staged by him.
Bai Yuan was very strict when it came to him recognizing this boy as a friend, for a friend suffices until one is met but if not, then what’s the point? Even if he had to sacrifice his life for a dear friend, it was a must.
Was he really going to die before his brother...? When Shen initially listened to Old Plank’s complete plan, his biggest concern, not knowing much of himself, was the difference between him and this child.
If they could not defeat the Divine Lake, they all would die.
—Bai Yuan had already clearly seen the inherent risks of this gambit. It felt almost like a game of wits, and Bai Yuan didn’t feel even a shred of guilt for Five Nine’s death.
After this ordeal, Well’s son would reappear again... It almost seemed as if he had vanished entirely.
Who cares if no eyewitness accounts exist, Bai Yuan has already solved all current problems.
"Soul-Stealing Ferry" wouldn’t be reality if it’s not possible to rely on the "Full Moon Fragment’s Transference" to fully integrate the soul and body, and the second greatest use of the moon fragment is exactly that.
What in the current reality could possibly be the approach to, in such a curious world inside, those red rooms he has to bust open? One of the two big issues in front of Bai Yuan is letting Well live on, and the other is the right time; he believes that the moment Bai Yuan becomes Zhao Kuan’s generously freed soul, he’s entering the second world with the rest waiting for Well’s resort.
Because of this trial, there must be a class of spiritual beings as powerful as Scarlet Yin that can contort reality, things so monstrously strong they can continue to advance.
From the moment he began the trial of the red room and the transference of consciousness, Bai Yuan was testing for that very thing.
Bai Yuan presumes, starting with the request for help, that Scarlet Yin, appearing in the Clock of Dawn’s domain, must be some kind of mighty spiritual monster, capable of trapping the little granny in danger.
Bai Yuan’s plan is always three steps ahead.
It’s almost unimaginable for Well, especially his take on Bai Yuan. Extremely skilled at manipulating people’s hearts, and quite similar to Well in that respect, he’s a person.
Feeling suddenly that his father, Well, was very dangerous and fiercely harmful, Five Nine came to a realization.
Then he ended this matter right here with this letter. The signature was Bai Yuan.
"You’ll never understand my feelings, I surprisingly turn out to be such a filial son, but you’ve kept the biggest secret."
"Isn’t this plan one step too much? On the one hand, you’re helping people for the first time with real intent in the red zone, and at the same time, you’re testing this shoddy product, Well, while I’m also riding on living the old way, and you on living the old way."
"The world will only sustain the wounds by Well’s creation..., it seems, and I might come back once you’ve used the moon fragment. But then, just wait till that happens."
"A great likelihood is that I will become a thought, and after a period of time, my belief in the resurrection of the dead will disappear, though if you come back to life, then about me, who has already thoroughly dispersed? And then what about me? Every one of you will regain consciousness from that monster’s world thereafter."
"In all this favorable situation, my foolish son will continue to lead a life polluted by the source of that murderous world of death."
"...The realm of the Soul-Stealing Ferry." Jing said in a low mumble, "This part, you don’t need to understand. You just need to know, that little girl Granny, she can help you complete the transference. I’ve been dead from illness for seven hundred years, and according to the timelines of this world, the trials should have ended long ago. There won’t be any more tests for me after this incident. At some point, you will become that little girl Granny, transferring your spirit into her body."
"This is the beginning of a second great game, because at this very moment, the white mist signifies that you will likely encounter some kind of emotional situation again after a long time, which will be the starting point for the secondary game. This Divine Lake is the best prayer for you, because it is this life of yours that creates his anger due to your death, and only through excessive anger can the strange essence of a spirit be burned, something that is far stronger than any weird creature you will face."
How he actually grew up to be so exceptional, he had never really thought about it before.
After all, White Mist is just a mystery, an absolute certainty... queueing up for something, without ever asking where it came from, just thinking about it.
Bai Yuan undoubtedly feels very curious about White Mist, and this is perhaps the only confirmed form that significantly increases his interest in a certain subject... an oddity in terms of academic interests.
To what extent is he happy, or is he not happy at all with Bai Yuan’s attitude?
After all, whether he is a good person or a bad person is still a matter of perspective, and Wǔ Jiǔ has a very strange feeling about not being able to see through people.
"If there is no one to take my place, one point where I still have some self-confidence is that you are the only one who can take my place. Only after you die, when you elevate in the afterlife, can someone like you show up again," Granny explained to Wǔ Jiǔ.
"This object you need to use is not just a catalyst, you are one person to him who values life dearly. I have already warmed and taught you this much, you know?" Bai Yuan kept speaking.
"If Little Red Cheeks, that girl with the fiery temper, is even involved, your chances of survival this time are zero. Without this White Mist boy who’s thoroughly opened up to ’fight on his own’, my estimation would have been off," God Granny shook her head and said.
"You young people are so impetuous, daring to cause chaos in any area. As of today, you have arrived at the domain of an entity whose spirit essence is far more powerful than any strange creature, pulling you directly into its realm. This creature is none other than that one," God Granny pointed out.
"Why do we have anything to do with all this... Of course. I can guess that the Divine Lake has almost completely destroyed someone’s soul, which is why we can draw such conclusions. This is your chance at the real soul, creating a piece of Full Moon Fragment and imbuing it with some kind of meaning," Old Plank reflected.
"Though I have passed through this test myself, proving to myself that I still carry my child’s attachment to me, I can still cling to the memories that belong uniquely to me. However, these Full Moon Fragments are a true materialization of something temporary, even though they are just a fragment of attachment," the God Granny conveyed.
"This is also something you will discover," Bai Yuan casually mentioned. "Everything in this world can be reflected here, and you will realize that this is only the beginning of trials."
"Because of the school tests, he hopes you will come to lead others away from unavoidable difficulties; that is what appearing in school stands for. You, appearing as a soldier in the camp, are, according to Bai Yuan, a statistical probability as a person. And you appearing at the small town police station signifies someone with a protective nature," Old Plank pointed out.
"Bai Yuan hopes that one day, outside of the tower where the great families gather, you won’t have to return to high times because you have developed into the cafe in the Old Plank’s Coffee Shop. In fact, he identifies you with this White Mist café as if it were you appearing there," God Granny asserted.
"These things that Bai Yuan recognizes in you aren’t just obsessions; in fact, he’s seen so many people like you in this world," Granny further analyzed.
"Whether or not this piece of Full Moon Fragment can actually turn into some sort of resurrection tool remains to be proven theoretically with another test," God Granny stated.
"This envelope is already an example of this theory, and when you see it, this will be a test. If you die as you are now, your place in this world will be even higher, much more than many others. Because someone saw you die and achieved a sudden elevation, that’s what they call a posthumous promotion. You surely knew that, right? After all, Bai Yuan, I am your descendant, oh," Bai Yuan introduced himself.
"Why don’t we try playing with this piece of the fragment first? Although we expect you to do something different after this, it’s okay to test it out, since this main fragment we left behind might just be some kind of resurrection tool, given the meaning of Full Moon Fragments. If we somehow find a perfect match for my divine spirit in your body..." Bai Yuan wondered aloud.
"Although I’m just an abstract concept at this point, with no physical body aside from me... I will experience it personally, but I am not my original self. However, this fragment is an embodiment of my attachment, a certain process, as we’ve already discussed earlier, but still I must clarify that this next Full Moon Fragment research might actually be real," Bai Yuan explained.
"This is what I’m most curious about in this world; it’s not just my disdain for children’s experiments that has shown up already, but what actually happened at that time that he started the experiment first with a real intent, using the Full Moon Fragment," Bai Yuan pondered.
"He already possessed the most powerful treasure back in those days; it seemed too good to be true that with his decision-making so deeply flawed, White Mist was nothing but a defective product," God Granny criticized.
"That time was indeed the most dangerous of all the dangers we’ve been through, as the Letter-Bearing King described; this piece of Well that we’ve left is indeed a piece of Well."
...the foggy white light in the city forest, which they passed through every time they went to the market, kids from their village mentioned that, despite being in the city, it really was a full moon fragment...
"This must be the most difficult one by far you kids will ever have to go through on this dangerous journey, the closest you’ve come to death in reality, this time, and the next time you acquire a full moon fragment," said Well.
"It’s not surprising that I’m the main person this irritating someone with a murky heart is after, since this piece of the fragment is a very special one, the full moon fragment," Bai Yuan mused.
"There’s not much point in you figuring out why things happen here, because you’ll be leaving very soon after all," Jing said.
Bai Yuan left a letter with the number ninety-five, intending it as a keepsake of this stubborn obsession, for Old Plank was nothing more than a bearer of stubborn obsessions.
Jing finally opened the letter to alleviate the nagging doubts in his heart.
The café owner seemed to have no particular interest in the fact that this customer looked astonishingly like him, even though many people in this small town did.
"The red evening glow is rarely seen here in town, the last time I saw it was many years ago. Residents say," said the waiter as he brought over a cup of coffee.
Jing was a bit bewildered, not knowing why he had appeared in this place, and not sure why there would be someone looking exactly like him in front of him.
...there he was, in some café...recognizing this dear friend who, back at Divine Lake, had launched a divine fire to quell the raging blaze – the same Bai Yuan.
In the world outside...
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She was willing to pay an incalculable price to kill God Granny!
Even if what awaited was a hellish existence, that too was preferable to being in limbo!
His eyes were fixed on God Granny, not caring about the encircling evil intentions, regardless of whether he sank ever deeper into the lake, Bai Yuan was utterly resolved.
The world beneath Divine Lake seemed like a spawning ground for endless nefarious creatures, with more and more obstacles surging up. freewёbn૦νeɭ.com
The dark waters of the lake opposed the fiery revenge, and despite the entire world believing that water extinguishes fire, it seemed God Granny could not simply stay away from Bai Yuan, who was constantly approaching despite continued resistance. These evil spirits beneath the lake were, in fact, the opposite – they were attracted to Bai Yuan.
But the black water grass that tried to approach Bai Yuan was quickly consumed by the divine fire, yet lingered beneath the surface of the lake.
Bai Yuan began to be shrouded in endless resentment and malevolence.
Without any hesitation, the fiery creature burst into the lake, something it had never imagined doing, pursuing the weird phenomena within.
Thinking her own leap into the lake would ensure safety, God Granny did not expect that the black silt-like water would become anything but an underwater abyss, a source of all the evil spirits.
These creatures were the root cause; this world itself was the source of all evil creatures, the ignorant people who blindly followed were countless.
Only Divine Lake existed, and with such a torrential wrath of divine fire, God Granny could twist and subdue the supernatural world within.
And at this precise moment, God Granny leapt into the lake.
As the red-tinged evil lotus in the sky raised its long red spear and danced its red wings, it followed in a dive toward God Granny with a threatening stance.
These pure manifestations of resentment and malice would easily be destroyed before the extreme fury present, for resentment is good, but jealousy is even better.
The red lotus spear easily pierced through the endless resentment as if it were entering a void, becoming red hot, while these barriers of resentment, powerful as they originally were, turned as frail as tissue.
This was God Granny manipulating a defensive segment of resentment. One by one, dark barriers emerged in front of her.
God Granny, sensing an unprecedented danger approaching, raised an alarm, intending to hide in the lake.
With the divine fire becoming even more distorted, and eventually vaporizing into steam along with the lake water, these eerie evil spirits transformed—it was already strange, but with the divine fire burning underneath, it was suffocating enough to steam the waters of the lake, though they were not sacrifices; this was what they perceived.
To them, it seemed as though once more, they were being offered sacrifices from the people on the shore.
Numerous fine evil spirits, curious about the commotion, emerged from the bubbling, black-hued lake; with the divine fire illuminating the whole Divine Lake, Bai Yuan swung the blaze as if he were a monster of the same kind.
All of them disappeared into the flames, including the evil spirits surrounding the Soul-Stealing Ferry and Jing himself.
Only someone in the throes of extreme anger has the potential to suppress anything in the divine spiritual world, for wrath is the ultimate weapon, a strategy that holds the essence of aggression.
The flames that represented wrath in this world erected a Buddha-like barrier.
...although these creatures also possessed immense divine strength, having swallowed several external entities over the centuries, steady and unchanging, following Well’s several openings, and never having erupted, they were directly absorbed by Divine Lake...
...the red fury erupted from Divine Lake, bewildering God Granny.
Only Bai Yuan could manage this affair.
Except for the rare instances of negative emotional concepts exploding outward, the matter itself is an extraordinary ordeal, equivalent to a trial by combat, for both Bai Yuan and Jing, as they reside within a world of immense evil corruption.
Essentially, this was the moment of greatest distortion, and the very things that exemplify evil intentions would then appear in their most twisted form within the world.
Currently manifesting in a red lotus form—let’s consider it the second phase—Bai Yuan was entering a new stage.
The original form of evil corruption which could be referred to as the first phase, Bai Yuan’s white bone form...
Red blood patterns surfaced, overlaying the ivory-white bones with a layer, and even those malevolent horns were part of it.
The wings, tarnished by red flesh, shone like magnificent red water crystals, emanating from beneath the torn white bone wings.
As the red flesh began to grow on Bai Yuan’s body, emanating from the yellow springs-like pores, his anger overflowed, but it was only the pure white bone that represented the essence of "nothingness."
Originally full of white bone, these creatures passing through the divine fire, attacking the burning city, were engulfed...
