Free Web NovelLu Yibei stopped by the window, watching the chaotic scene of demons dancing within Yumen Pass outside the window, immersed in surging despair and sorrow, as if she was tied in a dry well, unable to move. The sky suddenly poured down with heavy rain, and then she watched helplessly as the muddy water in the well accumulated more and more, gradually submerging her mouth and nose.
This is very strange!
She had only recently swallowed Human Fireworks. According to Chatterbox Girl, the lingering effects of Human Fireworks in her body would take at least several months to dissipate. Before that, she shouldn't have any strong emotions like sadness, despair, or anything else particularly intense.
Just as she was lost in thought, a scarlet stream of light shot up from the ruins, heading straight for the golden figure in the sky.
Two terrifying Spiritual Energy fluctuations collided, and a high-pitched roar like an angry shout suddenly erupted. All other sounds were covered by that roar, and the entire Yumen Pass seemed to fall into a deathly silence instantly.
The brilliant white light that had enveloped the sky a second ago instantly dissipated, and darkness descended once more.
At the intersection of the dark spear and the First Generation Miracle Saint's body, dazzling scarlet light burst forth, converging into a single point, hanging high above the sky, like a harbinger of disaster bringing ruin to the earth.
For a moment, the entire Divine Kingdom Jade Gate was as if someone had suddenly extinguished a lamp, with only the scarlet sparks on the wick still flickering in the darkness.
Lu Yibei stared at that point of strong scarlet light in the sky, as if hallucinating, and a crisp sound suddenly echoed in her ears, like a glass bottle being smashed.
The proliferative tissue, resembling a flower bud, that had grown behind the First Generation Miracle Saint's back, crumbled inch by inch amidst that faint, almost imperceptible crisp sound.
Countless sharp golden fragments, swept up by the violent air current, along with the scarlet stream of light dancing in the air current, scattered in all directions, like a blood-red rose adorned with gold powder, blooming in the sky, quiet and beautiful, carrying a terrifying power that coated the entire city gate with a layer of red.
As that beautiful and terrifying "flower" bloomed, enveloping the entire Yumen Pass, Lu Yibei suddenly felt that the city pass seemed to have been cursed by some force in an instant, and was irreversibly sliding into an abyss of destruction at an alarming speed.
Just then, the core of her mythical urban legend body vibrated again, and a burning current emerged from within it, rushing towards her eyes.
Interference itched, and her pupils felt as if pricked by something, making Lu Yibei unable to help but blink.
And in that single blink, between light and dark, the scene outside the window underwent a drastic change.
She finally caught a glimpse of the source that made her feel sadness and despair.
One, two...
Countless faint figures, mere outlines, appeared in the city pass. Some were tall and burly, holding weapons, but most were ordinary people, like those seen everywhere in any city, tall and short, fat and thin, old and young.
They seemed to still be alive, some in rags, slumped in the ruins, muttering to themselves in a daze.
Some picked up sticks at hand and confronted the fierce enemies on the long street, not retreating a single step, even if he was the only one left on the entire street.
Some, chased by weapon-wielding figures, ran quickly, shuttling through the dilapidated streets and alleys, dragging and pulling bundles and heavy boxes towards the city wall. fгeewёbnoѵel.cσm
Lu Yibei had seen the shape of those boxes in Xia Lianqing's room, filled with various supplies.
Was this what it was like inside Yumen Pass when the Shaman King's army was at the city gates? Lu Yibei thought, suddenly feeling a wave of exhaustion.
She suddenly understood that the lingering effects of Human Fireworks in her body had indeed not dissipated, and she herself would indeed not have any strong emotions for the time being.
That intense sadness and despair were not her emotions, but the indelible traces left in this God Kingdom by the lives lost in that Calamity a thousand years ago.
"Boom—!"
A dull roar came from afar.
That was the city gate closing. The majestic Yumen Pass, standing on the earth, was returning to its essence as a God Kingdom, detaching from the real world.
Soon, with a distortion and transformation of light and shadow, the earth was covered by rolling thick smoke, but the dark clouds accumulated in the sky were reddened by fire, looking at first glance as if heaven and earth had been inverted.
On the ravaged streets, the sounds of fighting and loud noises that had been everywhere a moment ago suddenly disappeared, leaving only ubiquitous cries, wails, and laments.
"Help! Someone help me... Heavens, someone help me!"
In a collapsed ruin not far from a Daimu Courtyard, a choked, suppressed cry came.
Lu Yibei looked in the direction of the sound, vaguely seeing clearly an old man, tears streaming down his face, holding a dying little girl, continuously calling out, seemingly trying to summon the last shred of hope, beside the unrecognizable remains of what was once a street stall.
She remembered that place seemed to have been a small tea stall, the old man was taking care of the tea stall, and the little girl sold flowers near the tea stall.
"Good child, be strong, someone will come to help us soon, very soon..."
While crying, the old man occasionally paused, gently comforting the little girl and wiping away the blood continuously gushing from her mouth.
Lu Yibei really wanted to respond to them, to tell them, "I'm here, I'll come and help you right away!"
However, she could not make a sound, nor could she move her feet. She could only watch helplessly, her raised hand suspended in mid-air, not lowering for a long time.
A moment later, the little girl lost her breath, and the old man's figure froze there, his already slightly hunched back seeming to suddenly collapse, becoming even more bent.
Immediately after, Lu Yibei heard whispers coming from the tightly closed spice shop near the grandfather and granddaughter, the voices seeming to belong to the young couple.
"Don't be afraid! It's just temporarily closing the city gate. I heard that long before the General left Yumen Pass, reinforcements were already on their way to Yumen Pass. Once the reinforcements arrive, everything will be fine," the man said.
"Then... when will the reinforcements arrive?" the woman asked.
The man did not answer the woman, only fell into a long silence.
Just as the man fell silent, a voice answered for him.
"They will never come."
When the words sounded, the free Spiritual Energy in the surrounding air suddenly trembled, and then, as if a pause button had been pressed, it fell into stagnation.
Hearing this, Lu Yibei was stunned for a moment, then turned around and saw a figure leaning in the dark corner of the wall slowly walking over.
"Chatterbox Girl? When did you..."
"Hmm, let me think." Chatterbox Girl tapped her chin with a finger, pondering for a few seconds before saying, "Probably when you started crying?"
"After all, you're my most important client. Knowing you're crying, shouldn't I come and check on you?"
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As she spoke, she walked towards Lu Yibei. When passing by Shen Baiwei, she paused slightly, looked at Shen Baiwei, and muttered softly, "So this is what she originally looked like? Much more pleasing to the eye."
Lu Yibei looked at Chatterbox Girl, then at Shen Baiwei, and asked in confusion, "You know her?"
Chatterbox Girl's gaze moved away from Shen Baiwei, stopped in front of Lu Yibei, and she shook her head, "Not familiar!"
She doesn't taste good either, not as good as Ju Meng... Chatterbox Girl added in her mind, then waved her hand, "Alright, don't worry about her."
Noticing that Chatterbox Girl seemed unwilling to talk much about Shen Baiwei, Lu Yibei also withdrew her gaze from Shen Baiwei. After pondering for a moment, as if remembering something, she looked out the window and said, "Those figures outside are..."
"Oh! Those?" Before Lu Yibei could finish her sentence, Chatterbox Girl interjected, explaining, "They're all unformed urban legend! Haven't you seen them before? Forgotten?"
Only when Chatterbox Girl said this did Lu Yibei suddenly remember that she had indeed seen unformed urban legend many times. One particularly memorable instance was when she escaped from Shihekou Middle School and called Uncle Zhang Shan to pick her up; Uncle Zhang Shan's car was fully loaded with black shadows, like an India military exercise.
And the figures that had just appeared within Yumen Pass indeed had many similarities with those unformed urban legend.
Just as Lu Yibei was recalling, Chatterbox Girl spoke again, "I guess they were all people who were trapped and died inside Yumen Pass when it closed a thousand years ago."
"They died resentfully, with deep grievances, and most of them had no Spiritual Energy potential to become urban legend, so they became these ghostly things. Finally, under the suppression of the Divine Kingdom Jade Gate's power, they could never leave, until their own weak, almost negligible sense of existence was completely worn away..."
Upon hearing this, Lu Yibei suddenly felt a chill.
Although unformed urban legend have chaotic consciousness, it's not entirely absent.
According to Chatterbox Girl, those people trapped in Yumen Pass who turned into unformed urban legend were like being tortured for thousands of years in a semi-conscious state.
That kind of torture, even the mighty Flower City Torment King, found terrifying.
"From their appearance, their existence had almost been worn away, almost vanished. If it weren't for the two guys fighting in the sky, making the Spiritual Energy of the entire Yumen Pass restless, you probably wouldn't even see them," Chatterbox Girl continued.
"Speaking of which, so many unformed urban legend, tens of thousands of unformed urban legend throughout the city, tsk tsk, this scale is also a first for me. Don't tell me, it's quite spectacular!"
Indeed spectacular, a cruel and desperate kind of spectacular.
Tens of thousands of unformed urban legend, and those terrifying urban legend now wandering within Yumen Pass, are definitely not all the people who were trapped and died in Yumen Pass, but only a small portion.
"It looks like... a dessert buffet, don't you think?"
Unformed urban legend are indeed an excellent source of Spiritual Energy for many low-level urban legend who cannot hunt the urban legend core. From a certain perspective, it makes perfect sense for Chatterbox Girl, who can eat A-Level urban legend cores as a main meal, to consider them "desserts."
Lu Yibei ignored Chatterbox Girl's nonsense and pressed on, "Why did you just say that no reinforcements would come?"
Hearing this, Chatterbox Girl rolled her eyes at Lu Yibei, pouting, "For someone who devoured the urban legend core of Liang Yue, a top student in history! Why don't you use it?"
"What does this have to do with Liang Yue?" Lu Yibei asked blankly.
She didn't know what Chatterbox Girl meant {N•o•v•e•l•i•g•h•t} by suddenly bringing up the urban legend she had devoured "eight hundred years ago" at Shihekou Middle School.
"Didn't you read that Dragon Tang guy's memory before?" Chatterbox Girl reminded her, "Think about how old he is, then calculate the time."
After Chatterbox Girl's reminder, a flash of lightning seemed to cross Lu Yibei's mind, and then Liang Yue's memory emerged in her thoughts. She suddenly understood, and everything became clear. ƒree𝑤ebnσvel.com
"The time when the Divine Kingdom Jade Gate was sealed was... the first year of Xiantong?"
"That's right!" Chatterbox Girl gave a thumbs up.
No wonder, if that's the case, then there really couldn't be any reinforcements... Lu Yibei thought.
The previous Emperor had just died, there were military rebellions in Jiangnan, and the Nanzhao Kingdom was invading. How could they care about the lives of the people in Yumen Pass?
Furthermore, with the Divine Kingdom Jade Gate sealed and the Shaman King suppressed, the threat was also eliminated, making it even more impossible for reinforcements to appear.
Even if reinforcements had already set off, they might have turned back halfway.
"But..." Lu Yibei turned to look out the window, frowning, "Is there no way to help them? I previously..."
"You want to say that you went back in time and helped Xia Lianqing with many things, and if possible, you want to go back again and help do more things, right?" Chatterbox Girl interrupted.
Didn't she know what Lu Yibei was thinking? She could tell at a glance!
Lu Yibei nodded.
She sincerely wanted to do that, and the core of her urban legend body was urging her to do so.
"Sorry, that's difficult!" Chatterbox Girl shook her head.
She knew very well that with Lu Yibei's current abilities, no matter how much she did, it would not affect the outcome.
Under the correction of that entity's power, the main trajectory of history is almost impossible to change, meaning those who are supposed to die will still die.
"What if... you help me?" Lu Yibei probed.
"..." Chatterbox Girl opened her mouth, instinctively wanting to agree, but then, as if remembering something, she avoided Lu Yibei's gaze, lowering her eyebrows and saying, "I can't help you this time."
To change an outcome that has already become history, only those with the power to end history can do it.
As an existence that ended the history of the entire world, Chatterbox Girl indeed possessed that power, and it was unprecedentedly strong.
But she didn't intend to lend it to Lu Yibei. She worried that once Lu Yibei was tainted by this power, she would irreversibly become like her.
And what she hoped Lu Yibei would possess was definitely not the power to end history, but the power to create history. Only by creating history could there be a "future."
After hearing Chatterbox Girl's words, Lu Yibei's eyes dimmed, but just as she was about to give up, she suddenly heard Chatterbox Girl speak, "However, there's another relatively compromising method that can prevent them from being trapped in this cursed place. Interested in trying it?"
Hearing this, Lu Yibei's eyes lit up, and she answered without hesitation, "Yes! What do I need to do?"
Chatterbox Girl turned to look at Shen Baiwei on the ground, and a smile that sent a chill down Lu Yibei's spine appeared on her lips, "You just need to create a Calamity..."
