Chapter: Chapter 513
“Little Yuan? What’s wrong?”
At this moment, Yuan was clutching her chest, a look of bewilderment and helplessness on her face. She felt a powerful pull from afar, a force so strong that she couldn’t resist it at all.
The divine bones buried deep within her body began to burn, providing her with enough energy for a long journey. She could roughly guess the origin of this pull; it was her own summons.
Should I go back? she thought to herself.
Although it was difficult to resist this pull, if she resisted with all her might, Yuan felt she could still last a little longer.
However, after losing the mental barrier set by Leticia, Yuan could vaguely sense the emotions coming from the direction of the “big egg.” It was a feeling of pain, as if her mind was being torn apart.
It was suffering, it was lost, and it needed help.
And now, the only one who could help it was perhaps Sister Leticia.
But Yuan didn’t know where Sister Leticia had gone. Yuan could only guess that Leticia had gone into hiding temporarily to avoid the terrifying attack just now.
Could Leticia awaken the consciousness of the big egg before it completely lost itself? Yuan didn’t know, she only knew that perhaps now was the time for her to fulfill her destiny.
If I go back, I should be able to help a little, right? Yuan thought in her heart.
“Sister Bai, I’m going to save myself.” Yuan turned back, a hint of determination in her eyes.
Bai Ling was stunned for a moment, then understood what Yuan meant. She opened her mouth, wanting to say something to dissuade her, but the words got stuck in her throat and she couldn’t say them.
In the end, she sighed, stroked Yuan’s little head, and said softly, “Live and come back completely whole.”
“En!”
A golden light shot out from Yuan’s body and flew straight towards the direction of the newborn deity.
The girl in her arms had stopped breathing. Bai Ling looked at the golden light that was quickly leaving, and her heart felt a pang of unease, as if her hard-raised daughter had her own thoughts and was actively doing something very dangerous. Although she knew in her heart that it was the right thing to do, she still felt a wave of worry.
The aftershocks of Huang’s self-detonation had gradually subsided. Bai Ling turned around and flew in the direction Yuan had left. She was going to find Leticia there.
Driven by the pull of the newborn deity and her own efforts, Yuan’s speed was far greater than Bai Ling’s. In almost an instant, she had rushed in front of the big bird.
The beautiful phoenix bird, with its chaotic gaze, saw the first fragment of consciousness that responded to the summons. A flicker of satisfaction flashed in its eyes. It opened its sea of consciousness, inviting Yuan’s return.
Yuan did not hesitate and immediately entered the consciousness of the phoenix bird.
Then, she saw her beloved Sister Leti.
“Yuan?! How did you get here?” Leticia, who was tightly suppressing a golden giant bird with colored ropes, was also startled when Yuan suddenly broke in. “Hurry up and get out, this is not a place you should be. If you don’t get out soon, it will be too late!”
This was the mental space of the newborn deity, the big egg. If something went wrong, Yuan, this little one, would be devoured by the big egg. Leticia didn’t want her little bird, whom she had painstakingly raised, to be lost just like that.
“I want to help! Sister Leticia, I can help you!” But this time, Yuan no longer obeyed Leticia’s will. She could see that Leticia was already struggling to suppress the golden giant bird beneath her, and as time went by, Leticia’s disadvantage might only grow.
Leticia gripped the colored ropes tightly, her expression contorted. She really wanted to throw Yuan, this little one, out directly, but she truly didn’t have the extra strength to do so now.
When she broke into the big egg’s consciousness space, Huang’s memories had almost erased the big egg’s self-consciousness. If Leticia hadn’t arrived in time, the phoenix bird outside would now be a new Huang, instead of being as confused and helpless as it was now.
But even Leticia could only temporarily control the big egg’s consciousness, which was polluted by Huang’s memories, preventing it from devouring the remaining consciousness of the big egg.
As time went on, the newborn deity’s mental space would become increasingly exclusionary. Leticia wasn’t unable to suppress this consciousness, but rather she would be slapped out of here.
At this moment, it seemed that all hope lay with Yuan. If she could awaken the consciousness of that egg and persuade the big egg to open the permissions of this mental space, then Leticia would have a way to deal with this polluted consciousness.
“Hoo, hurry up and go to the tallest phoenix tree in the very back to find your true form, and awaken her to unlock the permissions of the mental space for me! Otherwise, I can’t stay here too long! Hurry!” Leticia pulled out one hand, pointed directly at the tallest tree in this world, and shouted at Yuan.
“I know!” Yuan immediately turned her head and rushed towards the tree.
The distances in the mental space were strange. One moment the tree felt very far away, but the next moment, she almost crashed into the trunk of the tree.
Yuan braked sharply, a little scared, and flew towards the crown of the tree.
In the tree’s crown, she immediately spotted a small bird’s nest and a little girl with golden hair, who looked almost as old as herself, curled up with her legs drawn to her chest, shivering.
Hearing the sound beside her, the little girl looked up, her eyes tearful, and looked in the direction of the sound.
When she saw that it wasn’t the terrifying big bird but Yuan, who looked exactly like herself, she immediately pounced forward and hugged Yuan tightly.
“That bird is so scary. What happened?”
“Don’t cry first. Sister Leti is helping us restrain that big bird. We need to help her now, understand?” Yuan looked at the ‘herself’ who had buried her head in her chest and was crying her heart out. A strange emotion also appeared in her eyes, but she didn’t forget the important matter; not a moment could be delayed!
If she couldn’t unlock the permissions of the mental space before Leticia was expelled from here, then once the big bird was completely unrestrained, both she and ‘herself’ would be completely devoured by that guy.
“Listen to me, unlock the permissions of the mental space…”
“I can’t. The owner of this space is that bird now, I can’t steal it from her.” The consciousness of the big egg shook its head repeatedly. Its permissions had been largely taken away by that big bird, and now it couldn’t even do what Yuan said.
To put it bluntly, the big egg was actually the “guest” in this mental space now. The one tied up by Leticia and pressed to the ground was the true owner of this space.
The rightful consciousness of the big egg was actually that big bird.
The little girl hugging Yuan and crying was just a very weak and feeble consciousness.
“Whether you can do it or not, you have to try! Don’t just say you can’t do it before you even try!” Yuan pressed the big egg’s shoulders, her voice mature, incongruous with her appearance.
Her experiences in the outside world during these days had caused her to grow rapidly. Compared to the big egg, which had only stayed in the egg and only knew how to sleep and eat, Yuan, a fragmented consciousness, acted more like an older sister.
Her voice made the big egg stop sobbing. Looking at the expectant and encouraging expression on ‘herself’s’ face, the big egg nodded heavily, “Then I’ll try!”
Saying that, she closed her eyes, pointed her hand towards the sky from afar, and began to control her consciousness space with all her might.
Cold sweat gradually seeped from her forehead. The big egg’s face gradually turned pale. The hand she extended towards the sky began to tremble slightly, as if subjected to immense pressure.
“No, her power is too much higher than mine. If I only have this much strength, I can’t fight her!”
“If your power increases a bit, you can snatch it back?” Yuan immediately asked.
“I don’t know, but the power needed to snatch back that permission isn’t strong. If I were a little stronger, I should be able to snatch it!”
“Then absorb me.”
“Huh?” The big egg’s eyes widened and looked at Yuan, “Absorb?”
Yuan nodded and said softly, “I am a fragmented consciousness of yours. If you absorb me, your consciousness will become much stronger. Don’t look at me having little power when I left before, I’m very strong now.”
“Hurry, we’re almost out of time.”
The big egg’s breathing became heavier and heavier. “Okay!”
She didn’t think too much about it. For her, it was a long-awaited event for Yuan to return to her. If Leticia hadn’t stopped her before, she would have long ago called Yuan back to merge into one.
Now that Yuan had taken the initiative to propose this, she had no reason to refuse. Moreover, she truly needed the power of her half-self to help her regain some permissions.
Yuan opened her arms and hugged the big egg, who also opened her chest towards her. In the next moment of their tight embrace, Yuan turned into tiny golden light spots and entered the big egg’s body.
The two were originally one, so their fusion was without any obstruction. After completely absorbing Yuan, the big egg’s aura climbed to a new height.
Only… now she was once again confused about who she was.
That not inconsiderable amount of memory was etched into her mind, causing her to subconsciously believe that she was the girl named Yuan.
“‘I won’t think about these things. The most important thing now is to help Sister Leti defeat that big bird.” ‘Yuan’ closed her eyes again and began to contend for control of the mental space with the big bird once more.
This time, she succeeded. Although most of the permissions here were firmly occupied by the big bird, she managed to snatch the most crucial permission.
This mental space would no longer reject Leticia. As long as “Yuan” held this permission, Leticia would not be squeezed out of this space.
At the very instant this change occurred, Leticia secretly rejoiced in her heart, “This little Yuan is really well-raised! She’s been a great help this time.”
“See if I don’t beat you to death today, you damn scoundrel who refuses to die honestly, and still wants to harm this little guy who hasn’t been born a day. This is unbearable, go to hell for me!” Leticia tightened the colored rope that bound the big bird with one hand, and raised her fist with the other, punching the big bird’s head fiercely.
Punch after punch, the seemingly soft and weak little fists carried fierce power. Each punch made the big bird dizzy. Misty multi-colored light gathered around Leticia. She planned to finish quickly and kill the consciousness that had already become ‘Huang’.
But this big bird would not sit idly by. Guided by instinct, it let out a long cry to the sky. The original forest scene instantly turned into a sea of flames. Under the attack of endless flames, the colored ropes Leticia used to control her movements were all burnt. She immediately seized the opportunity to escape Leticia’s control.
How could Leticia let her go so easily? She immediately took out more ropes, wanting to tie up the big bird.
Thus, a strange chase began in this sea of flames. A beautiful, golden, shining big bird flew in front, and a petite, colorful girl with ropes甩 behind her. The two chased and fled, and for a time, they were evenly matched.
The big bird looked back resentfully. She couldn’t defeat the guy behind her now. She needed more power.
But where did the consciousness that had escaped before go? What could she rely on now?
Was there any place where she could gain more strength?
…
Outside the spiritual world, the golden big bird continued to circle in the sky. From time to time, it let out a high-pitched cry, as if guiding something.
At a certain moment, its eyes changed, and the cry it let out suddenly became sharp.
The external big bird was controlled by the subconscious of the body, and now that the big bird occupied the dominant position in the mental space, its consciousness also tilted towards the big bird’s side.
As the big bird clearly conveyed its desire for more power, the external big bird immediately began to urge the fragments of power that were on the way to return quickly.
The phoenix’s cry pierced through space and entered the ears of the fiery giant birds flying from all over the beast-man tribes, making them all speed up.
At the same time, the phoenix did not stay in place. Even though the body was controlled only by the subconscious, it could easily tear space and open a space channel to the main world.
With a flap of its wings in the already unstable space, it tore space, opened a space channel, and then flew into it without looking back.
“This…” Bai Ling, who had just found the golden chain, didn’t know what to do as she watched the phoenix leave. She had intended to look for Leticia’s body, but now things had taken an unexpected turn. “What should we do now, Ancestor?”
“Chase after her. Leti’s consciousness has hidden in the spiritual world, and her original body has already evaporated by now, so you won’t find it!”
