Chapter 181: Putting the Slate Together "What are you talking about? What did Di Jun guess...
Si Ling slept for a long time, finally awakened by a knock on the door. She opened her eyes and heard Xuan Chi opening the door. She lay there for a while longer and heard Xuan Chi talking to someone.
She frowned, sat up, put on her slippers, walked out of the bedroom, and saw two people sitting face to face at the dining table in the living room.
Seeing her come out, Hyun-ryeon stood up and nodded in greeting, "Your Majesty."
"Why are you here?" Si Ling yawned and walked to the table and sat down, his attitude as relaxed as if he was just chatting.
Hyun-rye sat back down and said, "Hyun-chi sent me a message a few days ago saying Yuan Qianzi had gone west, and he wanted to let me know in case something happened. But then there was no further news..." Hyun-rye glanced at his brother with a hint of reproach. "I wanted to send a message to ask about the situation, but I was afraid you might have fallen into Yuan Qianzi's hands, so I came to see... What's the situation now?"
"Hmm... nothing much for now." Si Ling shrugged. "Yuan Qianzi is trapped in the barrier I've created. If he breaks through, Lucifer will definitely tell me. The lack of movement means he's still inside. In the eyes of the other Heavenly Court personnel, he's probably missing for the time being."
"Trapped in the barrier?!" Hyun-ryeon stared in astonishment. "If he breaks out, won't you be like self-destructing?"
"That's right." Si Ling nodded and smiled. "So, now's the time to compete in speed."
As she spoke, she looked towards the corner of the living room, where there used to be several cubes of paper money for the dead, but now they were gone.
She was taken aback. Hyun Chi understood what she was looking at and explained, "I saw you were still asleep, so I finished the delivery myself."
"Delivered?" Si Ling asked, "What about the Cube?"
"I got it." Hyun Chi stood up and walked towards the door, took his backpack from behind the door and put it on the dining table. "It's all inside, but should we move to a more spacious place?"
"Let's go. There are open spaces everywhere outside the town." Si Ling stood up and walked out.
This is the deep seabed, and the thing that is most abundant is open space.
They left town, intending to go somewhere farther away to avoid being noticed by unrelated people. On the way, Si Ling asked Xuan Lian, "Where Lan Yi will cast the spell? Do you have any idea?"
Hyun-ryeon sighed and shook her head. "I've thought about it carefully, but I don't have any reliable guesses. Perhaps we could go to the mermaid's territory first?"
"Then we have to go back to Porcelain Country first." Xuan Chi paused for a moment and asked, "If these cubes are really lists, why is the list in this small town? Could this be the place where she cast the spell?"
"No," Hyun-ryeon denied it firmly and decisively. "Although I don't know where they cast the spell, it's definitely within the borders of Porcelain. The list must have been randomly chosen by Lan-yi. For her own safety, she probably doesn't even know where she is. Anyway, they definitely didn't come to the West, otherwise..." Her gaze towards Hyun-chi became somewhat compassionate, "otherwise, you wouldn't have died."
"Uh... you got the time wrong." Xuan Chi swam forward and said nonchalantly, "When the Lord asked Luo Ling to go back and tell the Five Clans to hide, I had been dead for a long time. Even if the Five Clans came, they couldn't save me."
“…” Hyun-yeon knew what he said made sense and fell silent.
A few seconds later, Si Ling, who was swimming in front, suddenly heard Hyun Chi screaming. He turned around and saw that Hyun Chi had not retracted his kicking foot. Hyun Chi frowned, but did not dare to fight back.
Oh, a fight between a sister and a brother, bloodline suppression.
Si Ling turned his head without saying a word, pretending not to see it.
After swimming for about half an hour, a cliff appeared before them. The three of them looked at each other and thought the area below the cliff was a good place, so they all swam towards the bottom of the cliff.
The bottom of the cliff had a long, mostly flat surface, and it wasn't too narrow. The three of them thought it was spacious enough, so Hyun-chi opened his backpack and began unloading his belongings.
...Three minutes later, the large and small stones that Xuan Chi had poured out piled up into a small hill in front of him, and he had to move a few steps to the side before continuing to pour.
Five minutes later, Si Ling and Hyun Lin sat down one after another, staring blankly at Hyun Chi mechanically pouring the stones.
Twenty minutes later, several small hills had piled up in front of them, but the backpack in Xuan Chi's hand continued to pour rocks down like a floodgate.
Only after at least ten minutes, the amount of stones falling out finally decreased significantly. Finally, with the shaking of Xuan Chi's hands, three or five stones fell out sporadically, and then it was completely over.
Si Ling's pupils trembled, and he took a deep breath: "Isn't this too much?"
"Hundreds of thousands of names, and their races are engraved on them too." Hyun-ryeon stood up from beside her, looking at the stone tablets with a seemingly calm expression, but in fact, there was an uncontrollable excitement in her eyes. "This must be the list of the five races. Otherwise, I can't imagine what else in the past tens of thousands of years would require so many words to be engraved."
"Then let's restore it." Si Ling shrugged, changed his casual sitting posture to cross-legged, and prepared to cast a spell.
Hyun-ryeon and Hyun-chi looked at each other and sat down as well. Si Ling saw that they both wanted to say something but he didn't know what to say.
…She knew what they were thinking. Previously, they'd believed that Lan Yi had hidden the five tribes with her "Silence of All Things," but that was just Hyun-Lan's belief. But upon closer inspection, Hyun-Lan herself hadn't participated in the spell, and she had no idea whether Lan Yi had successfully cast it. She also had no idea how many of the five tribes had been successfully hidden, and whether their mother was among them was equally unknown.
Before this, they must have been looking forward to the reunion, but now that they are really about to start moving this matter forward, they must be nervous.
Can it really succeed?
Can mother come back?
Si Ling knew very well that these uncertainties were enough to bring fear, but she couldn't comfort them because she had the same fear.
In the rebellion 30,000 years ago, Chi Huang was beheaded in front of her eyes, Feng Xiaozi was pierced through the chest by an arrow while protecting her evacuation, Shuang Ye, the mother of Fox Ancestor, disappeared and her life or death was unknown, and Xuan Chi was beheaded by Yuan Qianzi's sword in the west. Those few short days became her lingering nightmare.
In the past few days, she was also full of expectations. She hoped that at least Luo Ling and Lan Yi were still alive. If Shuang Ye was also in the void, it would be the biggest surprise for her in these 30,000 years.
Now, she has to face it all.
None of what she expected could be achieved with any confidence.
She closed her eyes and chanted a spell.
A few feet away, Xuan Chi stared at her silently. He knew that from this moment on, the counterattack had officially begun.
Although they had already awakened the heavenly soldiers, she would not rush back to heaven immediately because she still had to look for the five tribes.
After breaking the silence of all things, whether successful or not, they have nothing to prepare and the counterattack will begin immediately.
He suddenly wanted to know what would happen after that.
If they failed, or if she succeeded but he died, that would be easy. But if she succeeded and they both survived, what would happen next?
……never mind.
Xuan Chi shook his head.
She is not the kind of person who would burn bridges after crossing them, so for him, as long as his presence does not embarrass her, the worst outcome is to maintain his previous official position, which is already good enough.
Even if she would send him far away out of embarrassment, he would always return to heaven and he would always have the opportunity to see her face to face.
Xuan Chi put aside all distracting thoughts, closed his eyes, and chanted a spell.
Hyun-yeon was so nervous that she was shaking all over half a minute ago, but the moment she started chanting the spell, the nervousness and fear disappeared, and were replaced by many strange thoughts.
For example, if my mother really came back, how would she explain the relationship between Hyun Chi and the King? Or should she just leave it as is?
It’s really hard to say!
She said she didn't know how to say it.
She had been destined to be the heir apparent to the Suhuang Clan almost from the moment of her birth, having come into contact with the Heavenly Court much earlier than Xuan Chi. In her memory, the Heavenly Emperor had never shown any interest in relationships, and her mother shared the same perception.
Now……
The mother closed her eyes and opened them again. Not only had 30,000 years passed, but her son had also become the boyfriend of the Emperor of Heaven. Hyun-ryeon thought that this might be too exciting for the mother.
Each of the three men had their own thoughts. The piles of cubes before them gradually began to float, driven by magic, moving back and forth as if alive, searching for adjacent stones. The stone slabs that Luciano had considered intact also began to join together. Some of them joined directly together, while many more floated aimlessly, waiting for more cubes to form.
The three of them concentrated intently and spent another seemingly long time. During this time, they seemed to have entered that kind of "void". Everything around them seemed to be solidified, and the passage of time was not noticeable. Only the occasional sound of flowing water when stones passed by their ears reminded them that this world still existed.
Then, the stone wall that gradually took shape seemed to sense their presence.
Some unfamiliar scenes began to appear in front of Si Ling's eyes. She saw war, fighting...even brutal massacres, and the resistance of the death warriors who refused to give in.
She saw Lan Yi using the ancient sacred stones that the mermaids had treasured for tens of thousands of years to build an altar. The surviving members of the five tribes supported each other as they walked into the altar amid the distant shouts and cries of killing.
"Luo Ling!" Lan Yi suddenly turned around and looked at her. Si Ling suddenly realized that these scenes were exactly from Luo Ling's perspective at the time.
Lan Yi said, "Go in quickly, the altar is about to be sealed."
"No..." The vision trembled slightly, as if Luo Ling took half a step back.
Luo Ling was stunned and said, "I felt it... Her aura is weakening. It's Di Jun... Di Jun is erasing her traces. He guessed it..."
"What?" Lan Yi was stunned. "What are you talking about? What did Di Jun guess?"
"The Karma Curse..." Luo Ling shook her head numbly, "He guessed it... He's erasing every trace of her in the Three Realms. If she's completely forgotten, she'll never come back... Even the Ancient Gods themselves can't help her!"
Si Ling heard a faint sob at the end of this sentence. Then the perspective shifted abruptly, and Luo Ling, ignoring Lan Yi's cries, resolutely ran towards the distant mountains.
Then for a long time the picture was so chaotic that there were only countless colorful lines and nothing could be seen clearly.
When the picture suddenly froze again, she looked down and saw Di Jun's sword piercing "her" heart. She felt the severe pain Luo Ling was feeling at that time, and vaguely smelled a fishy sweetness in her mouth, but at the same time, a mixture of resentment and pleasure surged up in her.
"It's too late, Di Jun." Luo Ling laughed hoarsely, choking on a mouthful of blood foam. "Too late! From now on, they will commemorate her as their mother. When all beings in the Three Realms think of their deceased mother, they are chanting her name. She will live as long as the heavens! She will eventually take your life!"
Si Ling felt a tingling sensation all over his body.
...She remembered that when she first learned the name "Xin Bi", she was surprised why the character "Bi" was used as a name.
Xuan Chi said that it was a "woman holding two swords", but in her opinion, the word that is most easily associated with this word is "like losing one's parents", and "bi" here means "deceased mother".
Now she understood that it meant both "a woman holding two swords" and "deceased mother", and it was Luo Ling who spread the meaning of this word.
So, for 30,000 years, every time people paid tribute to and remembered their deceased mother, they were also remembering her without knowing it; every stick of incense they offered to their loved ones also allowed her to benefit from the incense and increase her cultivation.
Behind all this, Luo Ling exhausted all her cultivation and sacrificed her own life.
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