Chapter 38: The Apocalypse of the Parallel World of Reality and Illusion (1)
“Isn’t that a matter of course?”
Zihua spoke these words out of thin air, as if answering someone’s question.
The moment she finished speaking, my vision changed.
I thought I had teleported, but that wasn’t the case. I felt a strange sense of incongruity, and the emptiness in my heart was filled. I finally felt like myself again, like the saying, “Today, I finally know who I am.”
If I’m not mistaken, I should have merged with my main body.
Finally, I had a soul. Our spirits were merging, and the missing memories were gradually being filled in, making me “complete.”
Tears welled up involuntarily. “I” had waited for this moment for a very, very long time.
“Zi’ai? Why are you crying?”
“Zi’ai’s spiritual body has also returned, just like ‘Xiao An.’ She’s currently merging, so her emotions will be quite volatile. But why did she suddenly return? Didn’t you borrow my body to go outside the mirror with your spiritual body?”
Juncheng, whom I hadn’t seen in a long time. Beside Juncheng, that loli wearing a revealing outfit, is she Amaterasu? Yes, she was the original owner of this Yata no Kagami. She should be called An Yanling now.
“Of course, I did that. Hoo hoo, if I hadn’t given her a push, with Zi’ai’s personality, she would have been too soft-hearted to absorb her spiritual body in the end, and wouldn’t have been able to achieve completeness. It was the same as Xun before.”
“Just like Xun…”
“Is that your experience?”
“Hoo, yes. Otherwise, I wouldn’t be standing here. After all, no matter how you look at it, you’re the most suitable person to carry out this mission.”
What she said were indeed things that had already happened. In the history she experienced, I had never merged with my spiritual body, so there was no one to undertake the mission. Instead, it was entrusted to Zihua.
When ‘she’ told me this plan, she didn’t include her own matters. But since I already knew the outcome, I naturally couldn’t stand by and do nothing.
If “I” were involved, what Zihua had to do might not be something that was detrimental to us.
“Lan? No, you’re Zihua?”
“Yes, I was Lan before. But am I your Lan now?”
Zihua’s gaze became somewhat mournful, but more determined. She said to me,
“What I need to do is to revive Juncheng. It’s just that the method of revival is different from before. The items needed for this method have already been given to you, Zi’ai, to collect through Ariadne’s Thread.”
“You even tampered with the skein of thread?”
“No, Ariadne’s Thread, this anomaly item, originally gives answers according to ‘priority.’ When there are multiple answers, it gives the ‘optimal solution.’ It’s the same when providing conditions. So, I didn’t tamper with anything. It’s just that I brought the ‘best method,’ and this item detected it. If I weren’t here, this skein would give you a different answer. That’s the only difference.”
“So, you still want to revive Juncheng?”
“Of course. That was the only objective from the very beginning.”
“Juncheng ‘originally’ wasn’t supposed to die here, right?”
“Hoo, as expected of Zi’ai, you noticed? Yes, it’s not enough to just revive him. He must be revived according to ‘my method.’ There are many ways to revive Juncheng, and Juncheng will definitely not die here. Not to mention we don’t want him to, even ‘others’ wouldn’t let Juncheng die like this.”
“I can’t say more. If I say more, it will be noticed.”
I finally understood what Zihua wanted to do. She wanted to ‘revive Juncheng according to her method.’
If I’m not mistaken, in the history Zihua experienced, Juncheng shouldn’t have died like this and was revived later. However, he was revived using a different method, which led to a ‘certain event’ afterward.
Here, there might be “others” that Zihua mentioned. Someone wanted to use Juncheng.
This is the same as my guess.
Everything was a premeditated plan, designed from the moment Juncheng was born.
“You should have guessed it by now, because Zi’ai was implicated.”
“Ah, to put it bluntly, I was a ‘sacrifice.'”
“Uh, what are you guys talking about…”
Juncheng and Xiao An, whom he was holding, both looked dazed, completely unable to keep up with Zi’ai and me.
Well, this matter is indeed quite complicated, but now I can finally confirm one thing: she came here with the regrets of ‘all of us.’
She sacrificed everything to change the future, enduring loneliness and pain to return to the past.
“Next, we need to revive Juncheng. Let’s start now.”
“Hoo hoo, you don’t need to tell me, I’ll start. Let’s give Juncheng blood and a finger first.”
“Ah! My little finger!”
The blood flowed towards Juncheng, into his body, and naturally merged with it.
That little finger also floated towards Juncheng, but it didn’t replace his finger. Instead, it entered his body directly.
“Blood is the deepest part of a person’s body? It carries karma and destiny, and this finger is part of Juncheng’s original body.”
“Oh! Uh, so what?”
Juncheng didn’t understand at all. Since I didn’t understand, how could he?
“And then, Zi’ai, you also need this ‘blood.’ Since you don’t have a body, you don’t need a finger as a source.”
The remaining blood flowed into my body.
“Besides Juncheng’s blood, I also took the blood of that red-haired maid just now. When forming your body, you will be…”
“Are you going to revive me too?”
“Yes, but I’m not sure about that. Because it’s not part of the plan, and I used two types of blood. Maybe it will turn into…”
“A futa—I mean, although people often say online that they like girls with big P, most people are joking. No one really wants a girl with a big P. Ah, speaking of which, Zi’ai herself is also very…”
I directly interrupted Juncheng and exclaimed excitedly,
“That’s fine too!”
“It’s fine?”
“Of course! As long as I have a body, it’s fine! I don’t care what it looks like!”
Because with a body, I can return to the real world! I don’t have to live as a ghost in Juncheng’s spiritual space anymore!
“Hoo hoo, as expected, you’ve become much more honest after merging. But you won’t really turn into a futa. Well then, let’s start immediately. But before that, could you please get out of here?”
Zihua pointed at Xiao An in Juncheng’s arms. Xiao An indignantly raised her hand to protest.
“How dare you humans speak such sarcastic words! It’s not that I don’t want to leave, but I can’t! Do you know that?”
“Hoo hoo, according to the original development, the ‘Chains of Heaven’ on you would take nearly four months to break. But it’s different if I’m here.”
The chains wrapped around Xiao An disintegrated one by one, and her body glowed with a sun-like radiance.
Seeing her regain her freedom, Xiao An looked incredulous.
“How could this be! You can break the ‘Chains of Heaven’ that follow the laws of heaven!”
“Laws of heaven? Isn’t that just causality? Power of Destiny is the power to change the world. Well then, it’s time for good children to sleep. Goodnight~”
Xiao An, in Juncheng’s arms, disappeared into thin air, seemingly banished from the Yata no Kagami.
In the blank world, only I, Juncheng, and Zihua remained.
Speaking of which, where is Li Nai? Didn’t we come to this world through her dream? Why isn’t she…
“I’ve driven everyone else out too. With just the three of us, the remaining amount is ‘just enough.'”
“First, we need to make that butterfly spread its wings.”
Zihua reached out to the butterfly that had been flying in the air all along, as if releasing something, but in reality, she didn’t release anything.
But the light on the butterfly grew brighter and brighter, turning into a light sphere, and then, centered around that light sphere, it began to emit light rays in all directions.
“What are you doing?”
“What am I doing? Hoo, let’s go back to the ‘very beginning.'”
I didn’t understand what Zihua was doing, but Juncheng realized it and exclaimed in surprise as he looked around.
“This—you’re constructing a new Spiritual World!!!”
“Spiritual World?”
“That’s right. I’m going to use that butterfly-shaped necklace to construct a complete Spiritual World within this Yata no Kagami.”
Juncheng said excitedly.
“Creating a Spiritual World requires a massive amount of Power of Destiny! Are you going to burn your lifespan! Even if you want to, let—”
Zihua had already covered Juncheng’s mouth and looked at him with deep and calm eyes, saying,
“For you, I can do anything. Besides, this Power of Destiny was originally prepared for you.”
“—”
“Zihua, whose memory is in this necklace?”
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The little shopkeeper said that the necklace sealed someone’s memory. Zihua is using that memory to construct a new Spiritual World, isn’t she?
“It’s Li Nai’s memories from before she died. The world I’m constructing is ‘five years ago,’ and the Power of Destiny is sufficient to perfectly recreate the world of five years ago.”
“Completely recreate the world of five years ago!”
The surrounding world was changing at a rapid pace. The originally blank parts were all filled, and it was likely still extending in places we couldn’t see.
Until this world was completely filled.
How much Power of Destiny would it take to do something like this? Every time, Zihua managed to exceed my expectations. Every time, I underestimated her.
“Hoo hoo, if you’re surprised now, you won’t be able to close your mouth later. Because just constructing a Spiritual World isn’t enough. After all, it’s still fake.”
“This Spiritual World is still connected to ‘Li Nai’s Dream.’ This means this place is not only a Spiritual World but also a ‘Dream World.'”
No, no way?
Can she really do something like that?
That’s the realm of a creator.
“When the Power of Destiny is strong enough to surpass the world’s Power of Destiny, one can ‘change the world.'”
Zihua looked up at the sky, slowly clenched her fist, and revealed a confident smile.
“And my Power of Destiny is strong enough to exchange dreams and reality! Come, let’s invert the world!”
I felt my body slowly becoming solid!
This is the exchange of dreams and reality—
The Spiritual World is becoming the Real World!
In the mirror world of reality and fantasy, Chang Hua said, “Enter.”
“Welcome to ‘the past.'”
