Chapter 291 The Manifestation of the Silver Moon 1
The words of the ancient moon god were like a large stone thrown into the lake of my heart, stirring up huge waves.
"Has the Divination Master arrived at Moon Hidden Mountain?" I asked.
"Yes." Gu Yueshen nodded.
"How did you know?" I asked.
“It’s perception. Although the Divination Master arrived in a low-key manner, he didn’t put much effort into concealing his presence,” she explained. “In addition, I have existed in the Moon Hidden Mountain area for a hundred years, and this mountain has been imbued with my magic power, so I can sense the approach of a ‘giant’ like the Great Impermanence immediately.”
“And what I can sense, Silver Moon can certainly sense as well. Moonshadow Mountain is her place of origin, and this place is not only special to me, but also to her.”
I had heard before that Moonshadow Mountain was the birthplace of the ancient Moon God long, long ago. It turns out that not only the ancient Moon God, created by Silver Moon a hundred years ago, was born here, but also Silver Moon herself from even earlier times.
"Do you know what the divination master's purpose is?" I asked.
After calming down and thinking it over, something seemed amiss.
Assuming the Diviner Master arrived in the Moon Hidden Mountain area to save Dongche, why hasn't he taken action yet, leaving Dongche in this unpredictable place? It's highly questionable whether he thinks it's too late. He's the Great Unpredictable One, capable of foresight; seizing the initiative is his forte. How could it be so simple that it's too late?
To say that he came to eliminate the terrifying demon Silver Moon, his current stance of watching from the sidelines is even more illogical. With the power of the Great Impermanence, eliminating Silver Moon hiding in Moon Hidden Mountain, let alone erasing the entire Moon Hidden Mountain from the map, should not be such a difficult task.
Although I had previously had fleeting doubts about whether the Divination Master might have come to Moon Hidden Mountain, now that Ancient Moon God has pointed it out to me, I've started to doubt whether the Divination Master actually came to Moon Hidden Mountain at all.
On the other hand, this style of never taking the initiative to intervene in any situation, but simply observing from the sidelines and maintaining an unfathomable demeanor, is quite in line with the image of the fortune teller I have heard about so far.
“I don’t know. However…” Gu Yue hesitated for a moment, “Although this is just my intuition… the Diviner may not have any hostility towards Silver Moon, but rather intend to let things develop as they will, allowing Silver Moon to return to its peak.”
Silver Moon is a powerful demon who is extremely skilled in mental illusion techniques. Ancient Moon Goddess should also be of the same kind. Their spiritual intuition should not be underestimated.
So I immediately had extremely bad expectations.
"You mean, the Diviner might be on Silver Moon's side?" I asked.
“We can’t rule out that possibility. I’ve also wondered if the Diviner might just want to use Silver Moon, now that she’s back to her prime, for some other purpose… But if that’s the case, he could easily take control of Silver Moon first, then use his power and resources as the Great Impermanence to forcibly restore Silver Moon’s power, and then achieve his own goals.” Gu Yue Shen said cautiously, “And this bystander attitude now even makes me feel that he’s extending his goodwill to Silver Moon.”
This situation is absolutely terrible. In other words, in the worst-case scenario, I might even have to fight the unfathomable and unpredictable Master Gua Tianshi at Moonlit Hidden Mountain. As for who would be the loser, I find it hard to imagine that it would be Master Gua Tianshi.
The true intentions and specific power of the divination master were almost entirely unknown to me, and guessing wildly was useless, so I had no choice but to return to the original topic: "Tell me about Dongche first... Was he originally one of the dead, just like those villagers?"
Gu Yue Shen slowly shook his head, then said, "No, he is the opposite of those villagers. In the past, he was alive."
"Originally?" I asked.
“Silver Moon’s power to alter history cannot be used to resurrect the dead, but it can be used to kill the living. Although this power cannot be used against Great Impermanence or those who possess the qualifications of Great Impermanence, which are transcendent beings whose very existence can distort the natural order of spacetime, killing a mere Impermanence who has reached the level of Completion is still a piece of cake,” she said. “Suppose she wants to kill a target in the present, she can alter history to make the target die three days ago.”
"In other words, this is an attack of the 'present' on the 'past'; and similarly, since she can kill her past targets in the present, she can naturally kill her present targets in the future as well."
"Based on my observation, the boy named Dongche was not dead in the 'past' or 'present', but he was likely to die in the near future. This result then affected him in the past and present along the timeline, causing him to fall into a state of death prematurely."
"It's highly likely that the future Silver Moon devoured that boy in order to better recover her power. However, this phenomenon of 'premature death' is probably not something she did intentionally, but rather an effect inherent to this mist itself. This mist has the property of making time and space ambiguous, and those who die in the mist will automatically be transformed into phantom forms after death."
In this way, the mystery is solved.
Wintercar was telling the truth; he had not been replaced by the strange entity. The reason he gave me the feeling of being inhuman was both because he was not a living person and because his current existence was based on the power of the Silver Moon—so I even had the impression that "Wintercar's nature as a strange entity is like the Silver Moon."
He was clearly dead, yet he didn't know he was dead because he had never experienced death. His death occurred in the future. Perhaps with his perception, he could have sensed the truth, but as a phantom formed from the power of the Silver Moon, he may have been born with the "programming" to be unaware of his own death.
Is there any hope for him now?
“Then…” I continued, “if the Winter Chariot leaves this fog, will it disappear?”
“Logically, he should disappear, but since he has reached the Accomplishment Realm, the disappearance won’t be so fast. It’s like sugar cubes; although they dissolve quickly in hot water, if the cube is large enough, the speed at which they completely dissolve will be slower. There might be about an hour’s worth of leeway. As long as we take him to the Divination Master before time runs out, perhaps the Divination Master will think of a way to solve this problem,” Gu Yueshen enthusiastically offered his suggestion.
However, she might not know some things. Wintercart wasn't transformed into a phantom form of death only after entering the mist. It had been like that ever since we first met.
It's truly a cruel thing. His death wasn't even predetermined from the moment he stepped into the mist; long before that, he had already died because his future self would step into the mist. But from another perspective, at that time, even though he wasn't actually in the mist, he was able to exist normally in the outside world as a phantom.
If Silvermoon, as the summoner, dies, Winter Chariot will certainly die as well. Conversely, does this mean that as long as Silvermoon is alive, Winter Chariot's activity time in the outside world is unlimited?
This special attribute shouldn't exist in the villagers of Guyue. What could be the reason that makes Dongche so special? I considered whether I should directly ask the Guyue God. However, at this stage, I didn't want to reveal too much information that she didn't know.
And, does she really not know these things?
She said that the evil history of the Ancient Moon God that the villagers knew was a history distorted by the Silver Moon, but where is the evidence? She also said that she could only vaguely perceive the outside world, which does not necessarily mean it is the truth.
Of course, even if she was lying, she must have mixed in a lot of true information. To be precise, she probably mixed a few lies into a large amount of true information. Because she probably couldn't know how much accurate information I had, and if she were to slip up at any point, all her efforts would be in vain.
Having obtained so much preliminary information, I finally asked the question that concerned me most: "Do you know where Chang'an's soul is now, and what its condition is?"
"Chang'an...does it refer to Zhu Chang'an?"
Gu Yue Shen pondered for a moment, then shook his head and said, "I can't tell you his current state, but at least one thing is certain: his soul is not currently hidden away by Yin Yue; it is always with him. As long as you find Yin Yue, you should be able to find his soul."
Inseparable? That's such a lukewarm way of putting it.
Yin Yue believed that as long as others fully inherited her thoughts, it was equivalent to her living on. However, according to a senior researcher imprisoned at the Fufeng base, Ying Lingyun knew that Yin Yue had left behind a foreshadowing of "resurrection," yet he insisted on developing other methods of resurrection himself. My initial speculation was that the "current Yin Yue" was likely something Ying Lingyun absolutely could not accept.
It's likely that Lingyun knows in what form Yinyue intends to be resurrected. Based on all the information obtained previously, it's possible that Yinyue wasn't truly resurrected, but rather created another individual with roughly the same thoughts as herself, using Chang'an as the base.
As for the specific methods, I can even imagine them to some extent. Zhu Shi once told me that the bloodline of demons is born with the inheritance of knowledge and memory, so after a demon transforms into human form, it can immediately walk on two legs and speak human language, easily blending into the marketplace. This is the innate wisdom of demons.
Given Silver Moon's special abilities, it is entirely possible that she could also store her thoughts and memories into this innate wisdom.
Therefore, the moment Chang'an's demonic bloodline was completely unsealed, Silver Moon was revived from his body.
(End of this chapter)
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