Chapter 912 - 827 High Mountain Flowing Water
Sound Desolate, atop Immortal Melody Mountain.
The Grey Mist reached the heavens!
The female corpse stood up, her facial features once discernible for past beauty, but now her eye sockets were empty, filled only with the spreading grey mist.
The female corpse faced Nan Feng.
“You should rest now.”
Nan Feng spoke,
“The great disaster of the past has long since passed.”
Upon hearing this, Yin Zun’s Corpse also seemed moved and said,
“The great disaster has not passed, I only see everything in this world as an illusion.”
“You are a false version of me, a remnant shadow from my Sea of Karma, not belonging to this life.”
She looked at Nan Feng and said each word distinctly,
“You are a puppet being manipulated.”
Nan Feng shook her head, her eyes brimming with conviction,
“He has returned.”
“Now, he is my mentor.”
Her words carried immense confidence.
All along, her mentor… had been her greatest support, her confidence!
No matter the disaster, she had a faith firmly in her heart.
With her mentor present, all could be subdued!
Yin Zun’s Corpse suddenly showed a bitter and sad smile.
“That man?”
“That man has become a ghost.”
“He died, attempting to create a fictitious Ghost Domain… When I took that path, I witnessed him extend a dark hand from utter darkness, repressing Martial Honor.”
At these words, Nan Feng couldn’t help but be shocked.
Was this what her past self had seen after taking that path?
Now, she knew, their past selves, after the great battle in the Grey Mist Sea, had all stepped onto that ancient road.
The first was Martial Honor.
Yet, Martial Honor had been repressed by a dark hand.
And now, Yin Zun was saying…
The one who repressed Martial Honor was that… hand emerging from the darkness?
How could this be possible!
“We’re all dead… No one in the world can stop him…”
In Yin Zun’s empty eyes appeared to be sadness, as though she were crying,
“He is reversing life and death, he is turning black into white, he is lost in a grand dream… He thinks he is saving the Ancestral Realm, but he doesn’t know, he has turned into a ghost… destroying the whole world by his own hands.”
“The real world has been destroyed, this world is but a shadow scooped from karma, he is maintaining a grand dream of saving the Ancestral Realm, he turned into a ghost, afraid to face the reality of destruction…”
“All loved ones are dead, the world is destroyed, he alone is madly dreaming, neither alive nor dead… Alive is desolate, dead is melancholic, unable to traverse life and death… This is the truth!”
Yin Zun’s words carried an ancient sorrow, an endless despair.
Nan Feng was profoundly shaken.
Even though she knew that Yin Zun had died and was refined into an evil corpse,
What Yin Zun described… was still too astonishing!
Martial Honor, Yin Zun…
Why did they both witness such a terrifying vision?
What really happened in ancient times?
Could it be, as Yin Zun said, the real world was already destroyed, and this life is just shadows replaying, merely that man’s grand dream?
… This, she couldn’t accept!
“No… how could all this be false?”
Nan Feng murmured to herself.
She couldn’t help but close her eyes.
She recalled first seeing her mentor. It was in the Yin Realm, at Cangli Mountain Range in Xuantian Realm, where she and her junior sister Zi Ling encountered their mentor painting atop a mountain…
He recalled every dish her mentor had prepared.
The sounds of barbecuing with fellow disciples, fighting enemies together, sharing the bitter and the sweet, filled with laughter and joy.
…
Was all this fake?
“No!”
Nan Feng suddenly opened her eyes, her gaze revealing an unshakably firm light.
“Even if the whole world is a grand dream, I still believe in the reality I live in!”
“You see the world as illusions, I see humanity as still real!”
She was utterly resolute!
At this moment, her path of cultivation was indestructible.
Moreover, she felt a strange sense of relief.
Just now, her resolve had almost wavered.
She instantly understood why, after their demise, figures like Sound Venerate and Martial Honor had all been transformed into Evil Corpses.
Because everything they had witnessed had utterly destroyed their spiritual hearts.
Thus, at the moment of their death, their hearts were already lost, their wills in disarray, and their spirits crazed!
Seeing Nan Feng like this, the corpse of Sound Venerate gave a desolate smile.
“Kill you, destroy this dream of his.”
The Evil Corpse said,
“To be able to conjure such a grand, eternal dream might indicate that he hasn’t completely died yet, residing in a state of madness… Only when the lingering shadows of the dream blinding his eyes are completely erased, might he be able to find a glimmer of light in the utter darkness.”
She turned to Nan Feng and said,
“You are just my residue, and extinction is my judgment upon you.”
Her hand suddenly moved through the air!
The sound of a zither burst forth!
She was determined to kill Nan Feng!
Nan Feng, seeing this, did not flinch. She too moved her hands through the air, and in an instant, from her five viscera and six bowels, astonishing waves of sound flowed, transforming into the music of a zither, depicting everything!
High Mountain Flowing Water!
With this sound, an invisible connection suddenly formed between Nan Feng and the Evil Corpse.
High Mountain Flowing Water seeks a kindred spirit.
Indeed, her and the Evil Corpse, past lives and present!
Thus, at this moment, their heartstrings resonated, both the Evil Corpse and Nan Feng felt it.
The two stepped closer suddenly.
“I’ll let you see the truth!”
Sound Venerate’s Evil Corpse whispered, using the zither music of High Mountain Flowing Water, her soul’s depth fully opened at that moment.
At that moment, Nan Feng was startled, seeing endless scenes through the Evil Corpse of Sound Venerate!
She saw an earth-shattering battle!
In the Sea of Grey Mist, countless formidable enemies surged skyward, ancient paths lit up in grey, long swords slashing through the paths, green lights suppressing the mist, peerless beings using the world as a talisman, slaughtering great foes…
And there was Sound Venerate, supremely graceful, with a grey path in front of her, extending from some unknown place, exuding terrifying energies.
Sound Venerate fought fiercely, her zither music slicing through all foes, zither strings snapped one after another!
At last, she used her blood to draw the strings, repressing an ancient grey path, making a part of the Grey Mist Sea completely tranquil!
However, Sound Venerate too had almost reached her limit, her form staggering.
“Martial Honor has stepped onto the ancient path… It’s my turn as well.”
She travelled laboriously, and finally, she saw that path.
“The path that one has walked…”
Supporting her body, she stepped onto it.
But she saw a grey creature, with black chains, dragging away the corpse of Martial Honor!
“No!”
Seeing this scene, Sound Venerate was shocked and horrified.
At the same time, on this ancient path, a black path suddenly appeared.
A black hand reached out from above the path!
“Offering blood to the Sea of Karma… I need to leave a message for those who come after!”
Knowing she couldn’t stop it, Sound Venerate burned her entire blood, driving the Sea of Karma.
But, the next moment she was stunned.
Because she clearly saw, after Martial Honor stepped onto this road, a black hand reached out from a black path…
And that black hand, it came from the utter darkness.
Sound Venerate also saw…
That person… submerged in utter darkness, caught in a mad dream, was the one who had reached out the black hand!
This… was this the person they had fought through the Grey Mist Sea to find?
Failed to settle chaos, becoming a madman, dreaming in death…
“No one can stop it, no one can settle chaos… The destiny of all beings, the end of all realms…”
In her grief and rage, Sound Venerate was suppressed by that black hand.
…
Amidst High Mountain Flowing Water, Nan Feng saw the truth in Sound Venerate’s soul’s sea.
“Impossible…”
Nan Feng was shocked, yet she still firmly shook her head.
“What is impossible… This world is all illusory, I want to show you, your illusion, the illusion of this world!”
Sound Venerate’s Evil Corpse said sorrowfully yet laughed, she observed Nan Feng’s soul sea, with supreme power, aiming to destroy all illusions within Nan Feng’s soul sea!
Nan Feng’s mind suddenly felt a stabbing pain!
But, at that moment, a zither sound suddenly rose in her mind,
With this zither sound, Sound Venerate’s Evil Corpse also instantly shuddered!
…
Everyone should sleep.
Writing has become truly difficult at this stage.
Honestly, Guixin hadn’t really written over two million characters before, which really adds a lot of pressure in the later stages.
Goodnight.