Free Web NovelChapter 1919: Chapter 1915: Returning Mo Xiaoyan
The way Nuwa reacted was somewhat different from the image Ye Fan had always had of her; Ye Fan himself didn’t know how to judge the Nuwa before him. He felt there were many secrets hidden on Nuwa’s person, and that even this Nuwa in front of him might not be her true body. He also saw no need to make too many comments.
"You said you wanted me to watch a play—what play is it exactly? Can we start now?" Ye Fan asked.
"Don’t be impatient, young man. As a human, you should know that human history is something I created. You have no secrets in front of me. If you insist on displaying your barbarity and ignorance in my presence, that is also something you bring upon yourself..."
As she spoke, Nuwa stretched out her hand. In the distant sky there suddenly erupted a churning upheaval; masses of Spiritual Energy mixed with attacks containing different powers rushed toward the area around Ye Fan.
Ye Fan did not act rashly, because he sensed that these powers were still not enough to pose a threat to him.
In the end, he also realized Nuwa’s intent: she was merely using these mysterious substances imbued with different powers as a kind of hypothesis. Watching the surging dark power rolling through the cosmos toward him, he said, "This is what you wanted me to see?"
"You haven’t discovered anything from within it yet, but there’s no need to hurry. You’ll soon know what it means." Nuwa said, "Since ancient times, power has been gathering bit by bit. When power accumulates to a certain extent, the mutual devouring between powers begins to follow rules. Power itself can even make some active choices—how to devour, or whether to devour at all... Humanity’s mode of existence arose from this."
Ye Fan said, "That’s complicated. I don’t want to hear you explain all this. Even if you did create humankind, you still have no right to decide humanity’s life or death."
"The way humans live is also by plundering survival energy. In fact, organic matter counts as one method by which the universe decomposes and recombines power. This method was not created by me; it is a law that originally existed in the universe. I merely evolved it a little, turning it into what it is now." Nuwa said.
"So what?" Ye Fan asked.
Nuwa did not answer. She stretched out her hand again, and it seemed that a very mighty life force appeared in the universe. Ye Fan also understood that this power should be Nuwa’s origin power.
Nuwa said, "This is my survival power, different from your elemental power. I am born with a certain closeness to living beings. I can create life because I understood the true meaning of life. My understanding of life surpassed that of Pan Gu and Fu Xi and the others. Thus, they could accomplish the work of creation, but when it came to creating living beings, it had to be me."
"Oh?" Ye Fan did not respond with any further words.
An image appeared in front of Nuwa; the entire universe seemed to enter into an illusion. In the distance, powers converged one after another, finally forming streaks of white light. She said, "This is the earliest power of life, and one of the sources of heavenly tribulation... When I defied everything to create life, I was in fact artificially interfering with the way power is obtained; this already affected the development of the universe. The logic of the universe’s existence lies in completing a process from origin to destruction over a span of hundreds of millions of years. After another few hundred million years, there is another cycle from origin to destruction... again and again. If, in the midst of this, there arises a living being strong enough to alter the laws of the universe and cause order to change, then perhaps the universe would only be birth and origin without involving destruction... and then all of the universe’s laws would be broken."
Seeing Ye Fan seemingly pondering something, Nuwa continued, "What I did violated the laws of the universe. The humans I created have already influenced the universe’s origin and development. The existence of heavenly tribulation is to ensure the normal operation of this law. I spent hundreds of millions of years creating life, yet perhaps destroying this life could be done in an instant. I myself will not destroy living beings, but heavenly tribulation will... These white lights are both the source of life’s birth and the calamity of life’s destruction... I created these living beings, but I cannot protect them. I cannot even protect myself, because I myself am a being that defies the universe’s laws... Just like me, there is you, and Pan Gu and Fu Xi, and those ancient mighty ones and cultivators."
Looking at the scene before him, Ye Fan could not help thinking of the images he had once seen on the prophetic jade stone atop Emperor Mountain. It was very similar, though not entirely identical; what the prophetic jade presented was even more vast and tumultuous, whereas although Nuwa’s power was immense, she had only manifested one of the patterns according to which heavenly tribulation would occur, without fully displaying the entire process.
"The heavenly tribulation you must face is a punishment dealt by the universe’s laws upon living beings. If you possess enough power to drive away heavenly tribulation, then I congratulate you—you could even become the Cosmic Sovereign, because even Pan Gu and Fu Xi did not have the ability to resolve heavenly tribulation on their own!" Nuwa said helplessly. "This is all I can tell you. Perhaps you still harbor worries in your heart, and even wish to change all of this through your own efforts. But I advise you not to act rashly. Only when the heavenly tribulation arrives will you and that chosen one possess true value and significance..."
Having finished, Nuwa waved her hand once more, and that vast scene in the universe came to an abrupt end.
Ye Fan still did not see any content in Nuwa’s prophecy concerning the salvation from heavenly tribulation; she had only shown the terror of heavenly tribulation and some natural laws.
"This is the person you wanted. I’ll give her to you." Nuwa lifted her hand, and a spatial rift suddenly appeared in front of Ye Fan. From within came a woman who had been imprisoned. She was unconscious. When she fell into Ye Fan’s arms, he was certain that this woman was Mo Xiaoyan, who had previously been taken hostage by Chang Yi, except that now Mo Xiaoyan seemed to have lost her soul.
Nuwa said, "There’s no need to worry. She’s fine. She is only physically and mentally exhausted because Chang Yi attacked her with the mind, that’s all. I did nothing to her. She is not the chosen one and has little value to me. I am returning her to you. Perhaps only your spiritual power can awaken her... You are a man of feeling and loyalty; in this respect I admire you. You are not like that man... so heartless and unfeeling!"
Ye Fan more or less understood that the "heartless and unfeeling" man Nuwa spoke of was Fu Xi.
The relationship between Nuwa and Fu Xi was tangled and hard to sever; Ye Fan had no desire to concern himself with it.
"I don’t yet have the power to kill you, but sooner or later I will." Holding Mo Xiaoyan in his arms, Ye Fan said, "Since you’ve already handed her over to me, I won’t bother to argue with you. We’ll meet again!"
