Chapter 722: 22. Evil Begets Evil
“Are you that Heidi Lin?”
Renee’s purple eyes erupted with a murderous glare as she expressionlessly approached Fisher. A glance at the red lipstick staining his lips intensified the coldness in her gaze.
“She’s not Heidi Lin! She’s Baemon! That damned witch! Augh!”
At this moment, Emhart, who had been nestled in Fisher’s arms, suddenly became overly excited. With Heidi Lin in front of him, he had even forgotten his fear of Renee and was completely fixated on the female demon before him, wary of her terribleness.
Indeed, even if Heidi Lin merely turned her head slightly to look at him, Emhart would shrink back into Fisher’s arms in fear.
“Baemon. That Demon God?”
Renee was slightly taken aback, having heard the name “Baemon,” but when her gaze returned to the person before her, no matter how she confirmed it, the woman dressed in northern attire before her was merely a human being, showing no signs of disguise.
“What Baemon? I can’t understand what you’re saying!”
Seeing the innocent and confused expression on the other’s face, Renee momentarily felt that what she said might be true, hesitating between Emhart’s assertion and hers.
But upon careful reflection, it was rare for Emhart to display such fear of any existence; how could the person before her be just an ordinary human?
Fisher was wiping the lipstick off his face, but the warm, fragrant lipstick could not be identified in terms of material, and no matter how hard he wiped, it only seemed to increase, becoming more and more viscous.
Something felt off.
Fisher looked down at his palm and saw that the lipstick had already turned into a puddle of crimson blood, with thick, polluting energy flowing from it, as if he had intercepted a section of the crimson mist wafting outside and concealed it in the palm of his hand.
“Boom!”
In the next moment, the crimson blood suddenly erupted into a dense crimson mist, enveloping the space where Fisher, Renee, and Heidi Lin were entirely within.
“Gugugu!”
Under the pollution of the crimson mist, the dimly lit shelter space that had lost energy illumination instantly brightened up, dazzling like a beach under the afternoon sun.
Fisher raised his hand to shield his eyes but felt that what he was standing on had changed from the floor to silver-white sand, making a crisp “swish” sound.
“Whoosh!”
By the beach, azure waves pushed severed seabirds with human faces onto the shore, and those seabirds shivered and stood up again, incessantly spitting out silver sand, causing the gravel on the beach to increase.
Startled by this bizarre scene, Fisher was momentarily taken aback. They had clearly plunged into an illusion formed by spirit realm pollution, but Fisher felt that this illusion was drastically different from the one he had truly experienced before; the pollution here was not as intense as the true pollution outside.
He squinted his eyes, forcing himself to adapt to the blinding light and looked at the scene before him. Yet, the beach was empty; there were no traces of Renee and Heidi Lin.
“Whoosh.”
The waves on the beach splashed, and Fisher was slightly stunned as he quickly realized something, his expression changing dramatically.
Hela was coming for Renee!
“Whoosh.”
The waves pushed the seabird corpses up the silver beach, and although the blinding sunlight struck the gravelly beach, it emitted a soft glow akin to moonlight.
This was the same beach Fisher had seen, but it was the complete opposite of what he observed. Here, Renee and Heidi Lin could not see Fisher.
“Sorry, I’m just a weak little woman. To feel a bit safer in the face of violence, I had to take this extreme measure.”
Heidi Lin smiled and said so, while Renee quickly turned to Fisher to confirm his safety, only to find emptiness, making her already cold expression even more frigid.
She furrowed her brows and scanned the surroundings, saying,
“You have the ability to store and release the power of spirit realm pollution. This is something even the gods cannot do. Are you really worried for your own safety?”
Heidi Lin’s smile deepened as she shook her head and replied,
“I don’t possess such power now. I merely borrowed a portion of Fisher’s bodily fluid to accomplish this. He should have told you that his nature can accommodate the essence of other authorities.”
“You took his blood?”
Renee scoffed coldly, while Heidi Lin was momentarily taken aback before suddenly laughing.
“Hahahaha.”
“…”
Renee’s brow subtly furrowed, but Heidi Lin’s smile could not be suppressed; it was as if she had seen something amusing, and she continued,
“Sorry, I didn’t expect that the consciousness formed by the merger of the authority with the souls in the Sea of Souls would be so amusing. However, it’s not that; it’s something else.”
Under Heidi Lin’s suggestive words, Renee instantly thought of a conclusion that was hard for her to believe, and her face flushed slightly,
“You… he said you were related to the legendary ocean. Is the legendary ocean just a shameless existence that uses the bodily fluids of others to commit evil?”
“The soul is always lonely, craving the closeness and touch of the same soul. The way of fusion differs based on the vessels. You know this truth better than anyone else, don’t you? Every woman closely related to Fisher has experienced the joy of soul fusion. Hmm, guess who has experienced nothing at all?”
Renee’s expression was one of forced laughter, but to be honest, she felt stabbed by Heidi Lin’s words.
Has she never cared about these things?
Of course not!
Otherwise, she wouldn’t have secretly discussed such matters with Lady Bojiang and even asked Fisher using truth-telling.
She indeed cared; she was just too shy. Clearly, she had teased him so easily before, but just feeling his scorching soul approach made her want to hide as if she were about to be melted.
Consciousness would inevitably hide; her body was not like a shy little girl. Even if her soul flew away, her body obediently remained in place.
Her incarnate consciousness might have flown away, but it truly vanished. If it were her true self, perhaps it wouldn’t escape, but her true self was like that.
Renee believed that as a human, Fisher surely could not accept her true form. Thus, just like a daughter-in-law afraid of facing her mother-in-law, she kept delaying; kissing Fisher was the limit, and furthermore, she was not by Fisher’s side for a long time, exacerbating the situation.
It was as if everyone had gotten in the carriage, while she remained below, and if asked, she would stubbornly reply, “Walking is good for health.”
Is it that she didn’t want to get in the carriage? But she suffers from motion sickness!
At this moment of being alone, Renee suddenly felt like facing a formidable enemy.
This person before her was trickier than any woman she had encountered before!
“What’s wrong? Can’t come up with words? Because you don’t understand me? Yes, you easily crushed other women Fisher met before because you stood high. You have authority, positioned at a height difficult for others to look up to, seemingly knowing everything about others while they know nothing of you, hence being battered and unable to resist. But now you’ve found you know nothing about me. You know very little about me, and cannot approach me. So, feeling stuck?”
Heidi Lin’s smirk was like a sickle ready to descend upon Renee, but Renee’s purple eyes flickered slightly as she casually replied,
“I admit, even counting those beyond the barriers, there are very few who truly understand your existence. However, it’s not just me; Fisher knows just as little. To us, you are merely an invader, a downright enemy, a liar full of deceit. I don’t even need words to explain to you because I don’t care at all about how you and Fisher are related. Even if there were, it was obtained through deception. Can that count?”
Having finished speaking, Renee suddenly raised her palm; a sharp moonlight pierced the sand on the ground, shredding the silvery sand into fragments.
And this seemed to be the reason why Heidi Lin summoned this realm of spirit pollution.
The moonlight pierced through the sand, yet due to the influence of pollution, it slowly turned into a liquid, bizarrely transforming from moonlight into a milky substance that splashed onto the ground with a “splat.”
Renee was not surprised at all; this was merely a show of attitude, and she had no intention of killing her.
Kill the ocean?
That was simply unthinkable.
But the existence before her felt truly odd to Renee because this “Heidi Lin” looked like an ordinary human in every way, lacking any sign of authority fluctuation.
“Doesn’t count?”
Heidi Lin’s voice suddenly came from behind Renee, making her ears tremble slightly as Heidi Lin’s whispers softly blossomed in her ear,
“Because you’ve never felt his soul’s temperature, you don’t know how scorching it is to touch his soul.”
“…”
A tingling sensation rushed through Renee’s ears, almost like an electric shock, spreading along her skin and generating a rosy hue.
She coldly waved her hand towards the direction of the voice, exerting great force, but when she turned to look, there was no sign of Heidi Lin behind her, as if she had melded with the pollution itself.
This indicated that, even now, she was still capable of accommodating the power of dreams.
Could it still be relying on Fisher’s bodily fluids? What the hell?
Upon thinking this, Renee’s face subtly flushed again, especially since Heidi Lin’s whispers poured into her ear and soul like an enchanting melody.
“Because you’ve never experienced the turbulence of his soul, you don’t know how his soul’s fluctuations are like waves, rolling in again and again.”
Don’t listen, Renee!
It’s all delusional; she doesn’t care about that sort of thing!
Renee forced herself to calm down, wanting to rationally search for Heidi Lin’s silhouette.
She was the ocean, an uncompromising enemy, so she had to, she had to return to a logical train of thought to figure out how to deal with her!
Where had she thought she was?
Right, she might still be relying on that to accommodate the power of pollution. Wait, that bodily fluid couldn’t maintain its activity for this long, right? It shouldn’t be possible?
Then, if not, could it be that she and Fisher had?
But he should have severed ties with this ocean-related person; looking at his expression, he didn’t seem to be in love with her at all. It looked more like he had been heartbroken and disillusioned.
Damn it, had she celebrated too early? Could it be they had just done it?
“Because you’ve never had it, so you sour grapes, but you can relieve the jealousy of other things through fighting and bullying others. But this jealousy, you can never resolve, because even if given the chance, you won’t amount to anything.”
“Enough!!”
Renee’s purple eyes flashed, and her body suddenly erupted with numerous dazzling moonlights.
“Boom!”
The surrounding silver sand along with the crimson mist that made it up suddenly froze for a moment, evidently influenced by Renee’s emotional fluctuation.
With slightly reddened eyes, she looked around and coldly said,
“You surely didn’t come here just to spout this meaningless garbage at me, right? Or is it that the legendary ocean was turned down for cooperation by Hamon Hamon and is now venting your frustrations on this rare advantage?”
“Oh? I thought that the so-called deity formed by the merger of the authority with the souls of the Sea of Souls would be more emotional; although you do seem more like a person rather than a god, because your soul is provided by the souls of the Sea of Souls within the barriers.”
Heidi Lin’s voice paused slightly; at this moment, behind Renee, Heidi Lin’s figure abruptly appeared,伸出手掌 towards Renee’s back.
But Renee’s reaction was lightning-fast. She abruptly turned around and tightly grasped Heidi Lin’s hand, looking at her subtly changing expression, and coldly laughed,
“I’ve got you!”
“Smack!”
Having said that, she delivered a fierce slap to Heidi Lin’s face. The slap, mixed with her anger, released a cracking sound in mid-air, and if that slap landed, one could only imagine how tragic Heidi Lin’s human form would become.
Well, in the end, it seemed Heidi Lin wasn’t entirely indifferent to what she had said to Renee previously.
But the sound of the air cracking had already echoed, yet Heidi Lin softly spoke,
“So, based on the soul of the barrier, in my authority, you’ve transformed into a unique form.”
“Smack!”
The slap that was about to land suddenly stopped mid-air after Heidi Lin’s soft voice, making Renee momentarily stunned as she gazed at Heidi Lin’s smiling face, feeling a storm of emotional turmoil inside.
“What did you say? Your authority?”
“Surprised, are you? Or have you never thought about where your authority comes from?”
Heidi Lin smiled gently, suddenly leaning closer to the temporarily stunned Renee, speaking as such.
Where do I come from?
This question was not only one that Renee had questioned herself before, but her predecessor, the Mother God, had as well. However, within the barriers, no god or human had ever been able to answer their questions.
This puzzle, which had haunted the Mother God for most of her life, was rightfully left to Renee, just like the task that the Mother God promised the Magic Lord that she would accomplish, which Renee had never forgotten.
But if her authority originated from the ocean, then why did it send authority into this world?
It was this ultimate mystery that caused the brief pause, providing Heidi Lin with an opportunity for movement. She suddenly grasped Renee’s wrist, and the characteristic mature, feminine face of a woman from the North inched closer to the dark-haired beauty before her.
Her blue-golden eyes sparkled with dangerous light, and in a voice as soft as that of an evil demon, she said to Renee,
“I’ve got you.”
