Chapter 572 Deciphering the Broom Star
Does Asahi actually not have the power of a jinx?
While it's good to state the conclusion upfront, I'm inevitably surprised and puzzled because I haven't seen the analysis process yet.
Why would Huang Quan reach this conclusion? Asahi's jinx power, though of unknown origin, is a real entity. To interpret it as non-existent would fail to explain the series of misfortunes that befell Asahi. Judging from the sheer volume of the documents, I shouldn't worry about missing the detailed analysis. Therefore, I patiently continued reading, word by word.
Unfortunately, I couldn't understand the analysis process of someone like Huang Quan, a "professional." It listed a lot of things like mysterious symbolic calculations and incomprehensible terminology, which reminded me of seeing people on the internet in the past who made amazing conclusions about profound mathematical or physical problems, only to find a bunch of complicated proof processes that would make laymen sleepy.
Therefore, I had no choice but to skip these derivation steps and only look at the concluding text interspersed among the numerous derivations.
Huang Quan wrote:
"Our world is flawed, history is full of holes, and our worldview is riddled with glaring contradictions. Although I have used a lot of mystical theories to try to study Asaho's jinxed constitution, I don't know how many of these mystical theories are actually contradictory."
"According to my own statistics, at least two-thirds of the mystical theories we use today are wrong. The basic theories are not so hard to find, but the deeper you go, the easier it is to find anomalies. The reason they can still be practiced normally is not because these theories are all correct, but because our world itself is wrong."
"Correct knowledge can work in the correct world, while incorrect knowledge can only work in the wrong world—that should be easy to understand, right? To put it bluntly, many fundamental aspects of the physical and mystical laws of our planet, such as 'one plus one equals two,' have been distorted and missing. Countless cultivators are unknowingly using absurd logic like 'one plus one equals three' in their magical power and spells, without even realizing it."
"These erroneous knowledges undoubtedly originated from erroneous histories. If history could be restored to its correctness, perhaps we could also rediscover the correct mystical knowledge, provided that the original form of our world was not just a world of so-called 'common sense'... And putting aside the unknown parts, if things continue as they are now, without a doubt, the increasingly distorted world order will lead the world itself into an undeniable catastrophe, which is the truth of 'the end of the world'."
"The desire to return to normal order is not only a thought held by those of us who know the truth about the apocalypse, but also a natural instinct of the planet we live on."
"Planets possess a will, which is also referred to as the will of Heaven, the will of the world, the will of nature, and so on. In some forbidden materials, it is also implied as the will of decay and death... That is why there are divine children who can communicate with Heaven and Earth, and why there are rituals to offer sacrifices to Heaven and Earth."
"Since the world is about to be destroyed, its will will certainly not be inactive. It is regrettable that this will does not possess wisdom that humans can understand. Although we cannot assert that it 'has no form of wisdom', at least based on our observations, this will operates more on instinct."
"The source of the jinx power is not Asahi himself, but this will."
"Asahaya possesses the extraordinary ability to restore all things in nature to their original form... The will of nature has keenly perceived this fact."
The first page ended here, but thankfully there was a second page, so I continued flipping through it.
On the second page, Huang Quan wrote:
"It is obvious that Asahi's power of return is not enough to correct the world that has gone astray back to its original state, even if she becomes a god. However, as mentioned before, the will of nature is more of an instinct. Perhaps even if this will were truly intelligent, it would make the same choice, just as a sinner cast into hell would see a spider's thread falling from the sky and would desperately try to grab it."
"Imagine an emperor who cares deeply for his country, yet his entire nation, from commoners to his subjects, is afflicted with an incurable disease. Hearing of a remarkable person who can eradicate the plague in his region, what would he think? If this person also fears the plague and wants to flee to a place far from it, the emperor would surely be in a terrible predicament. Ideally, the situation should be reversed, creating a situation where the person is forced to constantly come into contact with and drive away the plague until the natural disaster is completely eliminated."
"That's probably how the will of nature works. The reason why Asao is destined to encounter strange events wherever she goes is because, in our world, all strange things, and things related to strange things, including us monks, are judged as 'errors that must be corrected'."
"Therefore, whether they are supernatural beings or cultivators, they will instinctively converge towards Asaho. At the same time, Asaho herself will constantly 'encounter' us on a fateful level. All of this is arranged by some unseen force."
"We are 'wrong'—this clue can also be used to corroborate another thing. The world we inhabit now may have originally been just the world of common sense, while we cultivators and monsters are all 'extraterrestrial demons who disrupt the world order'."
"But this makes it difficult to explain the criteria for the judgment of the will of nature and the existence of divine seals. The former is an existence that can only be explained by our worldview. If it is an intruder like us, there is no reason for it to judge us as something wrong. The latter does not seem to be a product of the world of common sense."
The little bowl read aloud, "The will of nature of the planet..."
She possesses the power of the celestial and terrestrial principles to communicate with the will of nature. If Asaho's misfortune was an arrangement of the will of nature, then she might have been able to discover the truth immediately.
Unfortunately, she is currently in the chaotic afterlife, where she can't even communicate normally with the will of nature, and before obtaining the fragments of the divine seal, she was in a terrible situation where she couldn't even use her own power properly. She once commented that Number Seven was "born at the wrong time," and this assessment is actually most suitable for her.
It's as if she's fallen into a state of blindness and deafness, and it's not her fault that she can't make a judgment.
At the very least, she once correctly judged one thing based on her intuition—Asahina's jinx constitution was not, in essence, "bad luck," but rather a tendency that was difficult to judge as good or bad.
From a certain perspective, Asaho could be said to have been destined for a righteous life of "saving the world," but the world underestimated the weight that Asaho's shoulders could bear.
Number Seven wore a thoughtful expression, her gaze particularly focused on Huang Quan's speculations about the truth of the world. Many details suggested a past friendship between Number Seven and Asahi, which is why I didn't forbid her from viewing this information.
I flipped through the documents again, came to the third page, and continued reading Huang Quan's records.
Why does Asaho possess the "Power of Return," a power so significant that it commands the attention of the will of nature? Does she have an unknown and transcendent background, which is why she possesses such a talent?
"Although I had such doubts, after a long period of observation and research, I finally admitted to a fact—"
"'The Power of Return' is not a particularly special power."
"Of course, this ability itself is quite outstanding, but that's about it. In the long years I've lived as a god, I've witnessed countless more superior abilities. Like the power to turn illusions into reality at will, the power to freely manipulate light and time, the power to reincarnate into the past, future, and other worlds... Compared to those real cheating abilities, the power of reversion is nothing special."
"She just happened to stumble upon a demand from the natural order. Every era has people like this, whose talents, seemingly unremarkable in one era, suddenly become highly sought-after gifts in the next. What made her stand out was not her own uniqueness, but the uniqueness of her environment. She was both very fortunate and very unfortunate to be standing on that excessively huge cusp."
"Perhaps that's why, despite bearing that 'misfortune' and causing the deaths of all her past companions, she always manages to miraculously survive. It seems that the will of nature doesn't want her to die so easily, but she herself probably feels that dying in some accident sooner would be the true relief."
"Her extraordinary talent probably stems from this. When Heaven is about to bestow a great responsibility upon someone, it always bestows various blessings, as well as far more curses than blessings... People as deeply 'blessed' as she is are probably rarer than children of divinity in the last thousand years. In other words, the half-baked predictions of those monks in the Evangelism Institute in the past were not wrong. Given enough time, Asahi will eventually become a god of the new generation."
That concludes the content.
This is what Huang Quan understands as the "truth of the power of the jinx"... I couldn't quite process my feelings after suddenly learning such a secret. I could only gently place the document back on the table with the feeling of putting a heavy object back in its place. Xiao Wan and Number Seven's gazes seemed to follow it unconsciously.
"...This could be considered a case of 'grasping at straws' in a desperate situation," Number Seven exclaimed. "The will of nature has actually placed the burden of saving the world on a little girl like Asaha, who's barely able to take care of herself...it's really..."
The little bowl seemed to be slowly digesting this information, and after a moment it murmured, "So that's how it is... Can the will of nature radiate its power into the afterlife of humankind?"
(End of this chapter)
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