Free Web Novel"Gu Qianqian? What did you mean by those words just now? Do you not believe that miracles exist in this world?"
The eyes of the Miracle Order member, peering through the hood that concealed their face, scrutinized the young girl before them, a cold glint flickering in the narrowed slits of their eyes.
The cold glint here was absolutely a literal cold glint. Lu Yibei suspected that if she said one more wrong word, this Miracle Order member would unleash some cruel "eye technique" she didn't know about.
"Don't look at me like that, you're making me so scared," Lu Yibei said weakly, discreetly employing a faint Charm ability.
"It's not that I don't believe in the existence of miracles. On the contrary, I'm quite interested in your order. It's just that there are many temptations, and I wonder if you could help me answer them?"
As she spoke, a strong desire for knowledge flickered deep within Lu Yibei's clear eyes, as if silently shouting, "Give it to me, quickly give me the answer!" making people uncontrollably want to satisfy her desires.
"..."
Who the hell could withstand this!
The Miracle Order member was silent for a few seconds. The cold glint in their eyes dissipated, and they said softly, "Of course. Our heavenly father is the greatest existence in this world. It's understandable if you can't fully comprehend his spirit. It is the duty of our order members to answer the doubts of the lost."
"Oh, I see!" Lu Yibei nodded thoughtfully and said seriously, "Then I want to ask, if you believe your heavenly father exists, why were you surrounded and suppressed by the Night Watch instead of miraculously remaining undiscovered?"
"Is it because he couldn't do it? If he couldn't, then he wouldn't be an omnipotent god, right? If he could do it but didn't, does that mean he harbors malice and is an evil god?"
"If he could do it and was willing to, why were three thousand seven hundred and twenty-one members of the Miracle Order killed and over twenty thousand members captured during the Night Watch's encirclement, yet no miracle descended upon ❀ Nоvеlігht ❀ (Don’t copy, read here) any of them?"
"If he couldn't do it and wasn't willing to, why do you still believe in him?"
Lu Yibei's small mouth, like a Gatling gun spitting blue flames, finished this long string of content in just over ten seconds. The Miracle Order member stared at her blankly, then their expression darkened, and their Spiritual Energy fluctuations surged.
It was like a teacher with a terrible personality being asked a question they couldn't answer at all by Little Ming, with only one result - "Get out!"
"You, why are you so clear about the number of members killed when the Night Watch attacked the order? Are you a spy sent by the Night Watch?!"
This Miracle Order member, whose professional competence was clearly not up to par, couldn't immediately think of words to refute Lu Yibei's points, but quickly came up with a reason to kill her in front of the members of various illegal Spiritual Energy organizations.
"Ah, don't be angry!" Lu Yibei exclaimed, taking a few steps back. She turned and pointed at Suolang Baima, who had been observing her from not far away and was suspicious of her identity, saying, "He said all this! He even told me he's a Night Watch member and has a way to protect me when things get chaotic later!"
Lu Yibei said, subtly increasing the intensity of her Charm ability release, "It's true, please believe me, I've even seen his bao sang cang xiao badge!"
As her voice fell, several gazes immediately turned towards Suolang Baima, their malice undisguised.
Suolang Baima, "???"
I haven't even pointed out that you might be an accomplice of the Night Watch!
You actually have the nerve to throw baseless blame on me?
Lu Yibei looked at Suolang Baima meaningfully. The moment their eyes met, her eyebrow provocatively twitched upwards.
Stinky little brother, I noticed you a long time ago!
The early bird catches the worm, the late bird suffers.
If I don't deal with you first, am I supposed to wait for you to jump out and accuse me?
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Deep within Taoyuan.
The cave where the Fusang Divine Tree originally grew had already collapsed in the violent Spiritual Energy explosion.
Within the great mountain, which was almost just an empty shell, everything within sight was being shaken, torn apart, shattered, and even evaporated.
Layer upon layer of intricate silver Spells drifted gently, sealing, covering, and closing off the terrifying Spiritual Energy, forcibly confining it within this great mountain.
The revived Spiritual Energy of Cuan Yang, in this limited space, was like silver, gold, or some other metal being melted. Scalding copper and iron liquids churned in a cauldron, gathering into a vortex, endlessly rolling.
The twisted and corrupted giant tree stood tall in this horrifying scene. Its roots extending downwards, like the blood vessels of some massive beast, were intricately intertwined, constantly writhing, stretching to the edge of sight.
One hundred and eight bronze pillars, each over a thousand meters long, were firmly nailed into the massive root system of the giant tree that was originally buried beneath the earth.
These bronze pillars, personally forged by Ju Meng, were by no means mere decorations recording the history of Taoyuan. From the moment of their creation, they bore the mission of suppressing the corrupted Power within the Fusang Divine Tree.
This was a magnificent cage.
"Bang—!"
A loud crash, like giant machinery colliding, suddenly arose.
As the high-pitched crash impacted the eardrums, it caused the precarious mountain body to tremble.
At first, it was just a faint tremor, which gradually turned into a roar!
Like the cleaving of knives and axes, the slaughter of giant dragons, like the roar erupting from the earth when a meteor falls.
A tsunami-like roar was spreading, carrying astonishing Spiritual Energy fluctuations, trying to break free from layer upon layer of shackles and restraints.
Like knives and axes cleaving, the scales of giant dragons rubbing, the earth cracking when stars fall. An endless shriek was spreading, condensing into vast ripples, trying to break free from the layer upon layer of shackles and restraints on its body.
Violent tremors erupted, and airwaves swept across.
Within the empty mountain body, light rolled as if it had solidified into a liquid.
Just then, thousands of wisps of earth vein energy, like a cascading waterfall, fell from the huge broken opening at the mountain peak, merging into the one hundred and eight bronze pillars.
A high-pitched, melodious bird cry resounded.
In an instant, the bronze pillars began to vibrate and hum, cracking inch by inch, erupting with brilliant emerald green light from the inside out.
As the emerald green light radiated in all directions, the humming sound from the bronze pillars converged, making it feel as if they were singing.
As if countless people were singing praises to another deity born from the Fusang Divine Tree.
"The month of early spring, its deity Jumang..."
"The month of early spring, its deity Jumang, and all remaining spring months are the same. The holy deity succeeds heaven and establishes the ultimate, ruling the world with the title of Wood Virtue, having merit for the people."
"..."
Accompanied by this prayer-like praise, the restless Power of Cuan Yang temporarily subsided...
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The top of the corrupted Fusang Divine Tree.
Ju Meng stood at the very top of the tree canopy, her eyes closed, standing alone, her toes merged with the branches.
Thus, a bizarre scene appeared.
At the top of the giant tree, every branch was bursting with vitality. Tender buds constantly sprouted from the slender tips, growing into new leaves. Clusters of emerald green leaves accumulated, forming a canopy that covered the sky and sun. Delicate pink and white peach blossoms then withered and fell, beginning a new cycle.
Falling blossoms were profuse, flowers falling like rain, as if the season had instantly switched from deep winter to warm spring.
Below the tree canopy, on the thick branches of the giant tree, some were covered in decaying flesh, others were dry and cracked, emitting intense high-temperature light, or were covered in tumor-like protrusions, densely packed, like festering sores caused by a skin disease.
Life and death converged, appearing simultaneously on this giant tree that grew from the same root.
If Lu Yibei had seen such a scene, she would definitely have quipped, "This is absolutely a bug in the world's server, right?"
After a long while.
As she used the power of faith contained in the earth vein energy to temporarily suppress the corrupted Spiritual Energy in the Fusang Divine Tree, Ju Meng slowly exhaled a turbid breath, opened her eyes, and looked down, her expression solemn.
Inside a huge tree hollow of the Fusang Divine Tree, a mass of dark red, amorphous flesh constantly writhed, differentiating into the organs of various different creatures, only to necrosis in an instant, until it grew black feathers or beaks resembling those of a crane.
It was as if, among the hundreds or thousands of possible urban legend Powers related to the Fusang Divine Tree, it was constantly evolving, constantly imitating, constantly trying, until it found the portion of Power belonging to Cuan Yang.
Shifting her gaze from the flesh, Ju Meng looked at the Crow Slave.
The dark red, amorphous flesh clung to the Crow Slave from all sides, almost completely engulfing his body, leaving only his face exposed, his eyes hollowly staring at the sky.
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"Tsk, you foolish fellow. It's precisely because of the existence of dependents like you that that irresponsible brat threw this mess at me and just walked away..."
After many years, upon merging with the Fusang Divine Tree once again, Ju Meng knew the entire story behind the shocking changes in Taoyuan almost instantly.
The main reason for the revival of Cuan Yang's Power was the existence of that dark red flesh.
Ju Meng observed that the dark red flesh had almost no urban legend Power, but possessed a strange Spiritual Energy fluctuation. Driven by this Spiritual Energy fluctuation, they would mimic any urban legend Power they came into contact with, then choose the strongest one as a template for proliferation and differentiation.
When Ju Meng first came into contact with the fuso, the dark red flesh even mimicked her Power and underwent a series of proliferation and differentiation.
However, the dark red flesh quickly made a judgment, deeming her Power less potent than Cuan Yang's. They abandoned mimicking her and continued to imitate Cuan Yang's Power, even mimicking the corrupted portion.
This made Ju Meng feel greatly humiliated.
However, the mere existence of the dark red flesh alone was not enough to revive Cuan Yang's Power, which had long since declined.
The reason things developed to this point was all thanks to Cuan Yang's most loyal dependents—the Crow Slave and the Cranes.
The imitation and proliferation and differentiation of the dark red flesh were limited to the level of Power and Spiritual Energy fluctuations. Like single-celled organisms, they had no independent consciousness and were insufficient to cause this level of destruction.
Without consciousness, even with powerful Spiritual Energy, they were just dead matter, far from being revived.
But the problem was, just as they began mimicking Cuan Yang's Power for proliferation and differentiation, the Crow Slave appeared nearby and sacrificed to them.
Thus, after devouring the Crow Slave and the Cranes, the dark red flesh used the Cuan Yang in their memories, or even imagined, as a blueprint to condense and construct a weak consciousness, ushering in a grand awakening.
"Absolutely idiotic. If this thing really escaped and left Taoyuan, what would happen?" Ju Meng cursed fiercely.
A thousand people have a thousand Hamlets in their eyes.
The Crow Slave plus the Cranes numbered well over a thousand. Even with the possibility of repetition, there were at least several hundred completely different images of Cuan Yang in their eyes.
The consciousness born from these images as a blueprint could only be said to be barely functional. Besides being able to move, their thoughts were even more chaotic than completely corrupted and fallen deities.
The corrupted Cuan Yang Power and Spiritual Energy, combined with the chaotic consciousness, gave birth to a urban legend that, predictably, would be a highly destructive monster that couldn't be reasoned with.
That would be a terrible Disaster causing widespread devastation.
"If that guy were still here and saw this scene, I wonder what he would think," Ju Meng murmured.
Although Cuan Yang's act of abandoning his Power and leaving was wrong, it was not a capital offense; it could only be considered highly irresponsible.
But these dependents, who were like toxic fan circle members constantly shouting "Cuan Yang, husband, I love you," were different. The things they did were as if they couldn't wait for Cuan Yang to die sooner.
Compared to them, everyone in Taoyuan was much cuter, Ju Meng thought.
While thinking, a strong corrupting force surged again. She quickly gathered her thoughts, controlled the earth vein energy, and suppressed it.
After completing the suppression, Ju Meng looked towards Tang City and sighed silently.
This was the third time she had suppressed that corrupting force. Each time consumed a large amount of earth vein energy, and her Power would also be corrupted to a certain extent.
Now, only by letting Jumang and Cuan Yang's Power, along with the Fusang Divine Tree, be destroyed in the brilliant beams of the city barrier could the Disaster be prevented.
Once the arrow is shot, there is no turning back.
When she transformed into a bird and flew towards the giant tree that had broken through the mountain and risen from the ground, she no longer had any retreat...
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Near Jinchan Rock in Taoyuanli Scenic Area, near the huge rock that protruded from the turbulent river, as if a golden toad was emerging from the water.
【Disaster: "The matter is settled. In five minutes, they will appear near Jinchan Rock in Taoyuan Gorge, using silver-white sword energy as a signal."】
Inspector Xing Yuan, who was leading forty Night Watch agents in concealment, reconfirmed the message Lu Yibei had sent a minute ago and slightly furrowed her brows.
Why silver-white sword energy?
I remember her previous sword energy was clearly crimson, wasn't it?
As Inspector Xing Yuan was thinking, Silver Horn, who was beside her, saw the content on her phone screen and asked softly, "Adult, how exactly did Disaster do it?"
"I'm also very curious, but..." Inspector Xing Yuan glanced sideways at Silver Horn, swung the terrifying black giant axe in her hand once, and said coldly, "You were peeking at my phone just now, weren't you?"
Silver Horn, "..."
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"Boom—Boom—Boom—!"
Colorful light streaks like a meteor shower across the sky above the gorge. The loud noise vibrated eardrums, and the entire gorge shook violently.
From afar, a series of shouts came.
"Kill her! Tear her into ten thousand pieces!"
"I'm going to tear that little bitch Gu Qianqian into pieces, shredding her inch by inch!"
"Judgment, our heavenly father! Please send down judgment and settle Gu Qianqian's sins!"
"..."
The noisy roars and screams converged, and the entire gorge boiled.
All members of the illegal Spiritual Energy organizations were roaring, chasing and intercepting the girl who called herself Gu Qianqian with ferocious expressions. Tangible negative Spiritual Energy fluctuations spread out, filling the entire gorge.
Suddenly, the thick smoke stirred up by the explosion was torn apart.
A high-speed moving figure, carrying a girl on his back, stepped on the turbulent river water, trod on the rolling waves, precisely seized every gap, and flexibly weaved between various saturation bombardment-like Spells and innate abilities, galloping forward all the way, leaving a chaotic silver-white trail.
After pulling away to a certain distance, Bai Kai slightly exhaled, turned his head to look at Lu Yibei on his back, and said gently, "Xiao Bei, I can barely remember how many years it's been. The last time you let me carry you was when you were in elementary school. I'm so touched."
"Save the touching stuff for later, watch out ahead, look where you're going!" Lu Yibei shouted, looking at the huge rock flying towards them.
She felt that letting Bai Kai carry her and run was the most wrong decision she had made recently. It was even more thrilling than the world's largest roller coaster with a super multiplier.
Hearing Lu Yibei's exclamation, Bai Kai suddenly leaped into the air. In a flash, his figure landed on the huge rock flying towards them, pausing for a brief moment. The next instant, the air boomed and dazzling silver light simultaneously burst forth beneath his feet, and his figure immediately shot forward like a cannonball for nearly five hundred meters.
After stabilizing his figure, Bai Kai turned his head to look at Lu Yibei again and asked, "Xiao Bei, the situation was too chaotic just now, I was just focused on running with you and didn't have time to ask you, how exactly did you provoke these guys?"
Recalling the scene when he first arrived at Taoyuan Observation Deck Number One and Lu Yibei was surrounded by dozens of fierce-looking guys, he still felt lingering fear at this moment.
"I... I didn't do anything!" Lu Yibei said somewhat awkwardly, avoiding Bai Kai's gaze. "I just refuted the existence of the Miracle Order's heavenly father, falsely accused a few Psychic of being Night Watch undercover agents, mocked the creations of the Wanderers Poetry Society, and exposed a few small secrets that some big urban legend didn't want people to know..."
Lu Yibei took over a minute to briefly explain how she stirred up trouble. Bai Kai's mouth immediately twitched uncontrollably.
You call this doing nothing?
If you were determined to do something, what would happen?
But...
"But Xiao Bei! From what you're saying, didn't you shift all the blame to others when you provoked them? Why are they still chasing you?" Bai Kai asked, puzzled.
"Oh, that's very simple!" Lu Yibei explained. "After I shifted all the blame, I just needed to find someone with excellent acting skills to play the bad guy, expose me, and stir up public outrage!" freewēbnoveℓ.com
"If it was just to provoke conflicts among those illegal Spiritual Energy organizations and make them hostile towards each other, it wouldn't be enough to make them want to kill me quickly."
"After all, there is also hostility between them, balancing each other out, and they are unwilling to easily take action, leading to a loss of strength."
"But if at this time, a reliable guy jumps out and points out that I was causing trouble in secret, and makes them realize that I alone possess a large amount of things they want to hide, it's different, don't you think?"
It's like two people arguing until their eyes are red, and suddenly a common enemy jumps out.
Even if I did nothing, I would become an outlet for their emotions.
"..." Bai Kai pondered for a few seconds and said earnestly, "Xiao Bei, after this is over, let's publicly sever our adoptive father-daughter relationship for now, okay?"
Lu Yibei, "..."
