Chapter 1320
Xi Tian Si’s End
The only way for Eivass to travel to the Dream Realm was through Morgan’s Wonderful Dream House.
Although Eivass and Isabel no longer used its original function much, its role as a beacon for the Dream Realm had become increasingly useful. With its existence, Eivass and Isabel possessed a fundamental ability of a Dream Traveling Monk, allowing them to enter the Dream Realm while sober and move freely within its various areas.
This time, Eivass brought Isabel along when he entered the Dream Realm. Although the Dream Realm was dangerous, Isabel was no longer weak. Her ability to transform into any acquaintance and imitate their Fifth Tier power was a considerable help to Eivass, like a universal key that could unlock any closed door.
However, when Eivass and Isabel drank the wine and woke up from the dream, they found someone unexpected yet quite reasonable waiting for them in Morgan’s Wonderful Dream House.
“I’ve been waiting for you for a long time.”
A faint voice came. It was Morgan—she was sitting sideways on a wooden horse, quietly looking at a book. At this moment, her demonic aura seemed to have faded a bit, giving her the air of a literary girl… if one ignored where she was sitting.
Seeing them both appear, Morgan casually tossed the book into the air, letting it disintegrate into fragments. The Lake Fairy turned her head and said with a seem to smile yet not smile expression, “You actually waited until nightfall.” “We’ve been really busy these past few days…” Eivass first responded to Morgan’s question, then asked, “Madam Morgan… why are you here?”
“It’s nothing… I just have nowhere else to go. Our little Mr. Sun.” Morgan said impatiently, dismounted from the wooden horse, walked over to them, and sat on the bed. “Although it was a gift I once gave you, it’s okay for me to hide here for a bit now, right?”
“… Hide?” Eivass’s heart tightened, and he subconsciously looked at Isabel. Isabel, guessing what Eivass was about to say, reached out and placed her hand on his arm, shaking her head slightly to signal that she was fine. “Don’t worry, there’s no real danger—as long as you avoid the Shadow Realm.” Morgan looked at their subtle actions and smiled slightly. “I guess you didn’t come to find Skaha, did you?”
“The Shadow Realm?” Eivass paused, a little doubtful. What did the Shadow Realm have to do with anything? Had the Shadow Heavenly Envoy been infected by the Void? The Path of Love was indeed dangerous… So Eivass asked with some nervousness, “Is it related to… ‘that’?” The ‘that’ he was referring to was the Void. He believed Morgan would understand. Eivass was unsure if directly calling out the name of the Void here would alert it, just like invoking the name of a god. After all, this was the Dream Realm, the “Divine Kingdom where gods reside.” Calling out a True Name here would have an even more immediate feedback than in a shrine. It was fine before, but if the Void had already successfully invaded the Dream Realm, then any action could be dangerous.
In response to Eivass’s question, Morgan nodded. Before Eivass could ask further, Morgan silently pointed to the sun outside the window.
…The sun? Combined with Morgan’s previous address—Little Mr. Sun—Eivass understood.
—Has Xi Tian Si been leaked? He had considered that Hengwo might not hold on, that the Shadow Heavenly Envoy might be corrupted, that there might be a leak of the Void during the handover between the Great Philosopher and Odin, and even that Amber might have created a crack by sharing power with his younger self in this era… but he truly hadn’t expected that the first one to break would be Xi Tian Si of the Third Origin River.
“…It’s normal, after all, He is responsible for plugging the leak, just like inflammation in the body resists calamities.” Eivass sighed, mourning for the Heavenly Envoy who had fought alongside him not long ago. “It wasn’t recently contaminated.” Morgan, however, shook her head. “Rather, he was contaminated a long time ago… perhaps even before separating from Hengwo. But he has been silently burning his own body, constantly purifying this meaningless calamity with divine pain. And not long ago…” Not long ago, Xi Tian Si’s consciousness was summoned to the Material Realm to fight against the consciousness of the Great Abyss. It was precisely because Eivass was severely injured and extremely weakened in the battle against Xi Tian Si that he could succeed in “overtaking” the body. And because his consciousness left his body, it was probably at that time that the Void seized the opportunity and completely corrupted Xi Tian Si’s body.
“Is there something taboo? Or did something go wrong on the Shadow Heavenly Envoy’s side?” Isabel asked with some worry. “After all, even you fled here.” “No, Skaha is fine. Because there are quite a few Phantom Demons who know that Xi Tian Si has been distorted by some power—this sunlight has clearly become cold, and standing in the sunlight causes hallucinations, and the plants bathed in sunlight have become unusually vibrant and strange. Anyone would notice something is wrong. But few people actually know its true nature.” Morgan rubbed Isabel’s hair, her expression somewhat helpless. “Therefore, many Phantom Demons believe that perhaps even the sunlight of the Dream Realm has been contaminated, so they have crowded into the lightless areas… such as the Shadow Realm. And this congestion has, in turn, become a new kind of calamity… I am hiding not from that thing, but from those frightened Phantom Demons. They have some legends that say, ‘Xi Tian Si is holding the most terrifying prisoner in the world,’ ‘just looking at it will make you a part of it,’ ‘that’s why the sun is so dazzling, making it impossible to look directly at it.’ Perhaps because of the terrifying portrayal of that thing in legends, even some newly born gods feel some fear. Although there are those who don’t take it seriously, and those who know more and understand the truth… but the number of Phantom Demons wandering the Dream Realm should be much smaller now. In this regard, your actions might actually be safer.”
So gods can be superstitious too? Eivass felt a mix of amusement and speechlessness. He knew the transmission path of the Void—it only spread through information, and the most common medium was language. This meant that even if Xi Tian Si were completely corrupted, even controlled, as long as no one talked to him, they wouldn’t be infected.
“Then what about Xi Tian Si?” Eivass asked with some worry and seriousness. “Should he be punished?” “No need.” Morgan immediately shook her head. “Regarding this, Xi Tian Si told me in advance before he descended. If something went wrong with him, he would completely burn himself out at the New Moon of the month he lost his sanity…”
Burn himself out— Hearing this, Eivass and Isabel exchanged a look, their hearts shaken. “…Will something happen?” Isabel asked nervously.
“Before the next sunrise, this world will usher in eternal night. Plants will die, temperatures will plummet…” It was not Morgan who answered her, but Eivass, his voice low. “Just like the era the elves experienced before the sun rose… the era when ‘The Fool’ existed.”
(End of this chapter)
