Free Web NovelAfter a brief thought, Lu Yibei withdrew her thoughts and refocused her attention on the gradually clearing image before her.
Whether to risk condensing the Lilim's Spiritual Energy Seal could only be decided after Lilim's past was fully revealed, and before that, she felt it was better to discard distracting thoughts and focus on Lilim's past.
If she accidentally missed any crucial information, even if she tried to condense the Spiritual Energy Seal, serious errors might occur...
It was like not seeing the entire past of Goddess Ba, but only the latter half after she was exiled, and her authority was twisted and corrupted by rumors and legends, becoming a monster named 'Hanba,' and then using that part of the past to condense a Spiritual Energy Seal.
Heaven knows what kind of monstrosity the condensed Spiritual Energy Seal would turn out to be!
She composed herself.
As the song echoed in her ears, bright, fairytale-like colors appeared before her eyes, and flowing lines outlined a figure wearing a wreath.
She had long golden hair like the morning sun, skin like white snow, eyes as deep and bright as stars in a clear night sky, and a tempting figure like a work of art by a master, yet it aroused no trace of lewd desire.
She lived carefree in a forest full of flowers, like the purest and most sacred spirit born from heaven and earth.
Until one day, a strong wind, blowing from who knew where, whistled through the forest, carrying away Lilim's most beloved wreath. She chased the wreath, running through the endless forest. After an unknown amount of time, when she came to her senses, she had already reached the edge of the forest.
There, a handsome and tall youth stood outside the forest, holding a beautiful wreath and looking around, as if waiting for Lilim's arrival.
The youth smiled, handed the wreath back to Lilim, and then extended his hand to her.
Like a fawn seeing humans for the first time, Lilim timidly accepted the wreath, looked at the youth's outstretched hand, hesitated for a moment, then turned and ran back into the boundless forest.
After that day, the youth set up camp at the edge of the forest, as if waiting for Lilim to reappear, lingering outside the forest all day, muttering to himself about the outside world to the forest.
Lilim hid in the forest, where the youth couldn't see her, secretly observing everything about him. A hint of longing gradually grew in her eyes, but she couldn't follow the youth away; her mother had told her that the outside world was extremely dangerous.
Days passed, and one morning, the youth suddenly disappeared. Lilim thought he had left, until a few days later, the dying youth reappeared at the edge of the forest.
The youth was severely injured, like a rabbit bitten by a wolf that Lilim had seen in the forest. She worried that the youth would die like this, so for the first time, she stepped out of the forest and brought sweet spring water and honeyed fruits to the youth's side.
Just then, the youth suddenly opened his eyes, pulled her into his embrace, and kissed her lips...
The next moment, Lu Yibei's vision suddenly dimmed, as if the fairytale book had been left for too long and gotten damp, its pages faded and moldy, and even the images became blurred.
Lu Yibei, “...”
At such a crucial moment, with her pants already off, why did it suddenly disappear?
Well, it's understandable. After all, it's not easy for anyone. If they produced scenes that were easily 404'd, the story might just end right there.
As Lu Yibei thought, the brief silence of the song in her ears resumed.
“Lilim once lived in a place full of flowers outside the paradise.
She walked in beauty's light, like starry skies, like hope.
The youth she adored returned.
His smile like a rose, blooming in her deepest heart.
Just as the youth appeared in her dreams.
She reluctantly sent the youth away, to a place she could not reach.
Offering the youth fertile land and herds of cattle and sheep.
But the youth became another's groom.
What made him change his heart?
And what made him change his appearance?
How painful life is, how long the wait.
The youth returned to Lilim's side.
He said he longed for a magnificent crown and powerful strength.
...
Lilim once lived in a place full of flowers outside the paradise.
...
This time, the youth wanted her beautiful eyes and heart...”
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Meanwhile, on the dilapidated and crumbling rooftop.
When the song sounded and Chatterbox Girl, through Lu Yibei's perspective, glimpsed Lilim's past, a series of question marks immediately popped up in her mind.
“No... what in the world is this?”
She was surprised, not because Lu Yibei had just condensed the Goddess Beiling Seal and triggered the advancement opportunity for the Witch Seed, but because the past Lu Yibei glimpsed was a bit off.
In this world, was there anyone or any urban legend that understood Lilim's past better than her?
Certainly not!
That was the foundation of her growth into a Calamity.
Yes, Chatterbox Girl had also glimpsed Lilim's past, but what she saw was vastly different from what Lu Yibei was seeing at this moment.
Bright and vibrant colors, a fairytale-like beginning, a development seemingly heading towards a happy ending... the scenes Lu Yibei glimpsed were like having a ten-level beauty filter applied compared to what she had seen.
In Lilim's past that she had glimpsed, not just one handsome youth appeared outside that forbidden forest, but a group of heretical fanatics exiled by the mainstream religious sects of the time. Several handsome youths responsible for contacting Lilim were just one part of them.
They had known all along that a powerful urban legend resided in that forest and was unable to leave due to some kind of power restriction. They went to the forest with ample preparation, hoping to find a treasure that could help them revive.
They tempted Lilim out of the forest with beautiful things from the outside world, bringing her care, reverence, and preferential treatment she had never experienced, treating her like a deity. When the time was ripe, they made their wishes to Lilim.
Lilim generously granted the wishes of her followers, or rather, her friends, bestowing upon them land and wealth.
This was easy for her to do, as she had inherited the power of Lilith, her mother, who was regarded as the mother goddess of earth and agriculture in ancient Hebrew mythology.
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After getting what they wanted, that group of fanatics soon left contentedly, leaving Lilim to wander alone in the forest as she once had.
It wasn't until about two hundred years later that the descendants of those heretical fanatics, due to a series of evil deeds, were attacked by the mainstream religious sects and, having nowhere else to go, returned to the edge of the forest.
For a powerful urban legend like Lilim, one or two hundred years was not a long time, with little difference from a week or a month, so she did not resent her "friends" for their unannounced departure.
When those individuals emulated their ancestors, offering worship and preferential treatment, flowers and delicacies, and various sacrifices, they quickly received Lilim's forgiveness and the desired gifts from her.
Having learned from their ancestors' mistakes, what they sought this time was no longer wealth, but power.
This was also not difficult for Lilim, as she still controlled a part of the authority over storms, blood, and night, inherited from her mother.
And when those individuals obtained what they wanted, they soon, like their ancestors, left that forest.
That forest was a place rumored to hide forbidden things. Even though they and their ancestors had gained wealth and power there through Lilim, they always feared it and never truly liked it.
From then on, Lilim's face no longer bore the innocent smile it once had.
She wandered alone in the boundless forest, like a lost ghost.
But how could wealth and a little power satisfy those people?
Perhaps they could demand more from the kind and generous Lilim?
It wasn't until much, much later, about four or five hundred years, when the descendants of those heretical fanatics appeared outside the forest for the third time, that Lilim felt anger, an emotion she had never experienced before.
They wanted her eyes and heart, to completely gain power comparable to a god...
Those individuals knew Lilim couldn't leave that forest, so when Lilim unleashed her wrath, they fled in a panic outside the forest, quickly moving away. But even so, they couldn't rest easy, fearing Lilim would retaliate and reclaim everything they possessed.
Thus, they began to deliberately obscure Lilim's existence, depicting her as a terrifying presence in the night who would tempt men to degradation, destroy women's beauty out of jealousy, and harm the lives of children, an untouchable forbidden entity.
Even the Psychic maidens they had once revered, who could slightly communicate with Lilim's authority and display extraordinary power, once regarded as saints, became Demoness and were cruelly murdered.
Hanging, beheading, burning... some even took advantage of the opportunity to slaughter Demoness, finding pleasure in torturing various maidens, or collecting maidens' blood to achieve some unspeakable goals.
As those heretical fanatics initially gained power from Lilim, wantonly abusing it to cause destruction, and later, out of fear, twisted Lilim's image, constantly slandering her and forbidding others from touching her existence, Lilim's image within that distant forest finally changed.
Her long hair was no longer golden, becoming as pale as deep winter snow, her sacred face gradually became enchanting, and some characteristics that should appear on Abominations of the Witch Seed manifested on her. The only thing that remained as before was that touch of red lips, which had kissed the wild roses in the forest, as vibrant as ever. freёwebnovel.com
But at the same time, she finally gained the opportunity to leave that forest.
Perhaps because her former "friends" twisted her authority, the power in the forest could no longer restrict her...
Or perhaps, having already fallen, she became a pollutant of that forest and was exiled...
In any case, Lilim walked out of that forest, gathered the persecuted Demoness, and brought terrible Disaster upon those betrayers.
But unfortunately, Lilim ultimately died, or rather, transformed into the state of a witchs egg, and after several turns, returned to her mother's embrace, sinking into the Red Sea.
The descendants of those heretical fanatics were no longer like their ancestors, who had to hide like sewer rats to barely survive; they now had the strength to struggle and resist.
Even if they couldn't defeat Lilim and the Psychic maidens labeled "Demoness," they still sought help from those mainstream religious sects, exaggerating their terror and evil, regardless of the irreconcilable hatred that once existed between those mainstream religious sects and their ancestors.
Anyway, they already possessed land, wealth, power, and strength. With a little embellishment, they no longer needed to survive by hiding like rats in the sewers. They only needed to employ a few tricks and pay some wealth to whitewash their dark origins.
This was the entirety of Lilim's past as glimpsed by Chatterbox Girl, just as she had experienced it...
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“What the ♦ is this? Isn't it too OOC?”
Once again glimpsing the scene presented before Lu Yibei, Chatterbox Girl couldn't help but slap her thighs with hands covered in crimson mud, grumbling indignantly.
Presenting a group of ungrateful scoundrels as handsome youths, a symbolic image, made her, who had seen Lilim's true past, feel too out of character. freewebnσvel.cѳm
She was very worried!
Worried that the child would be led astray by this kind of modified material...
As she spoke, something flashed through her mind.
Chatterbox Girl suddenly recalled what the Shaman King had said to Lu Yibei before his invasion stopped and he fell into a long slumber, and she gradually frowned.
“Wait, I think I understand what's going on... Perhaps those words, and the Shaman King's invasion, intensified Lilim's memories contained within the witchs egg? If that's the case...”
Chatterbox Girl looked up at the projection in the sky, tilted her head, and mumbled, “Perhaps this is Lilim's past, presented from her perspective?”
Strictly speaking, a witchs egg is also the core of a urban legend' body, but unlike other urban legend' cores, when a Witch Seed urban legend reaches the end of its life, it can condense a witchs egg using all its Spiritual Energy and authority, similar to giving birth to offspring.
This is a unique ability of Witch Seed urban legend compared to other urban legend.
Just like how Witch Seed urban legend become exceptionally difficult to kill after hiding their true names, or how Abominations of the Witch Seed have a much more vigorous vitality than urban legend of the same level, or how Parasitic Kindred Abominations cannot exist independently and can only attach themselves to other authorities... these are all unique abilities ◆ Nоvеlіgһt ◆ (Only on Nоvеlіgһt) of different urban legend types.
This unique ability gives the witchs egg a stronger vitality than the knowledge and memories in other urban legend' cores. Under certain conditions, a witchs egg can even immediately reproduce a new urban legend with all the corresponding Witch Seed urban legend' authority.
However, this vitality also comes with a serious problem: the memories stored within the witchs egg will have a greater subjectivity than the knowledge and memories in other urban legend' cores.
Simply put, the knowledge contained within the witchs egg will be influenced by its previous owner.
In this situation, gaining Calamity-level power by relying on Lilim's authority would only result in becoming Lilim 2.0.
If one were to try to condense a Spiritual Energy Seal using this incomplete past, it would likely lead to major problems.
Thinking of this, Chatterbox Girl sighed, “I'm impressed. Should I say it's truly Lilim's authority? It even wants to confuse the new host? Isn't it afraid of killing her? Forget it, I need to remind Lu Yibei quickly...”
As she spoke, she looked up at the projection in the sky, and then froze.
Lu Yibei, who had already glimpsed all of Lilim's past, actually strolled over to the black silhouette that was eighty to ninety percent similar to her, touched the black shadow, and began to chatter.
“I say, don't be sad. Who hasn't had a moment of being lovestruck? Oh, no, in your situation, I think 'being CPU'd' is more appropriate. You can't be blamed... But now, haven't we recognized reality?”
“Then there’s nothing to be sad about! Cheer up, make a comeback, grow bigger and stronger, and create new glories! If you can't do it alone, I don't mind helping you out!”
“After all, we are one now, no need to be polite!”
Chatterbox Girl, “...” She’s actually chatting with the materialized authority within herself? What kind of operation is this? Do you think that's a Tailed Beast?
