Chapter 46 The Goddess is a witness to the world!
Ye Ziqing took Chu Sheng to climb the Heavenly Stairs for a very long time. The Heavenly Stairs that seemed so close at hand last time now seemed too long and too far away.
Even the eldest brother from the He Huan Sect started to wonder if he had offended the goddess in some way. Even Chu Sheng started to reflect on what went wrong between the two of them...
When the two of them looked at each other in bewilderment, and even began to review whether they had taken the wrong first step on the stairs to heaven, or were climbing too slowly or too fast, Chu Sheng suddenly shuddered.
She felt as if a pair of eyes were suddenly "looking" at her from somewhere.
——She is a goddess.
"She saw us coming, senior brother." Chu Sheng, who was still trapped in the golden lotus, subconsciously climbed onto Ye Ziqing's shoulders.
"This kind of stuck situation shouldn't happen again. We can go up now."
In Chu Sheng's view, the existence of the goddess is like a consciousness in the sky. Every move of everyone in Kunlun Ruins is inseparable from her observation and control.
But Ye Ziqing still felt nothing.
Be it a premonition, a sense of pressure, or the feeling of being locked in by some mysterious entity...
Ye Ziqing felt like someone had his eyes blindfolded, his ears covered, and his mouth blocked. He felt very confused by everything Chu Sheng said.
Ye Ziqing couldn't figure out what was going on. He lowered his eyes and said nothing to Chu Sheng.
Looking back now, Elder Fuqiu's decisive response in asking Xiao Sheng to bring back the Golden Lotus of Creation seemed a bit too quick.
And so far, neither he nor Xiao Sheng has truly seen Yun Mengzi again after he overcame the tribulation... Naturally, the same goes for Si Chun, the sect leader.
It would have been fine if Yun Mengzi had suddenly been unable to communicate due to his tribulation, but Si Chun, the sect leader, hadn't left Ye Ziqing a single word from the moment they entered the Tianjiao Ranking.
This is totally inconsistent with Si Chun's meticulous personality.
What exactly do you want to do, Master? Or did something happen that prompted you to make the final decision?
Ye Ziqing lowered his eyes. After feeling Chu Sheng's somewhat doubtful spiritual sense touching him, the eldest brother of the Hehuan Sect briefly abandoned these messy and confusing thoughts.
"Brother? What's wrong?"
"Nothing, Xiaosheng, I was just wondering..." Ye Ziqing said softly. "What is the goddess's true name?"
“…Huh?” Chu Sheng also became confused.
Ye Ziqing gently tapped the leaves of the golden lotus, and then stepped onto the last step leading to the Tianchi Lake.
As the center of all topics, the goddess was currently sitting by the Weak Water Pool, looking down at the pattern on the jade in her hand.
After Chu Sheng's head emerged from Ye Ziqing's shoulder, she stretched out her hand in Chu Sheng's direction as if she had predicted it.
"You're here."
Chu Sheng looked at the jade artifact. On the bright background like moonlight, there were golden dragon patterns, the shining sun, and beautiful clouds that seemed to be cut from the horizon as a backdrop.
The twinkling starlight between the clouds and the thousands of auspicious auras slowly descending from the umbrella make this magical umbrella shine as dazzlingly as a priceless treasure!
"This is a gift Xiaolong gave me before he left." The goddess happily opened the spiritual umbrella and spun it in the mist. "It's so beautiful... just like Xiaolong."
The Lord God left? When?
It was obvious that when she and her senior brother stepped onto the heavenly steps, the Yinglong, which was unique in heaven and earth, had been entangled with Qi An and Yuan Qi for a long time. But at this moment, the goddess took out a product that was obviously carefully crafted.
Ye Ziqing realized that when he and Chu Sheng were seriously climbing the Heavenly Stairs, the time that had passed might not be just the short moment they thought...!
For some reason, Chu Sheng suddenly had a bad feeling.
Before this, Chu Sheng didn’t quite understand why the Tianjiao List sent them to this era.
In the records left after the appearance of the past Tianjiao List, the geniuses often faced sudden crises, opponents trying to steal treasures, and complex and ever-changing cave secrets.
The above examples are numerous and varied, but generally speaking, they are relatively normal situations. But when it comes to me, why does it become...
But forget it, Chu Sheng comforted himself, since it has come, just make the best of it, and think of it as a disaster destined by fate.
I don't know if it's an illusion, but many things I'm involved in seem to easily go in unpredictable directions...
At this moment, Chu Sheng, who saw the goddess again, realized the moment he came into contact with her that this mysterious feeling was not an illusion.
Yinglong's worries were not wrong at all—
Because the state the goddess showed when facing Chu Sheng at this moment, she was really about to die!
Chu Sheng looked at her helplessly but with anticipation, but all he got in return was a calm smile from the goddess.
...Shh, don't tell lies.
What do you want me to do.
What do you want me to witness?
The goddess said nothing, but leaned forward slightly, and her bloodless lips gently touched the delicate petals of the golden lotus.
The blood that transitioned from red to dark gold slowly dripped from the corners of his mouth onto the pistil, just like the blazing flames of the sun falling from the wings of a golden crow, burning fiercely in Chu Sheng's consciousness!
"Xiao Sheng!" Ye Ziqing shouted when he realized that Chu Sheng was feeling pain.
He rushed towards the goddess, but the short distance of a few steps just now turned into an insurmountable length like a chasm!
"I'm very grateful for your existence," the goddess whispered. "You made me realize that the future I see still has hope of being changed."
The future, what kind of future?
Chu Sheng didn't know, but she realized that everything the goddess did at this moment came from the future she talked about!
No matter if it was the inexplicable departure of Lord God Yinglong, or the Immortal Chongming who had not yet returned, or the wrong things she had said before, everything was just because the goddess "saw" something happening!
What did the goddess see?
Her breath rapidly weakened at this moment, like a balloon with a hole in it, while the golden lotus where Chu Sheng was located grew and expanded at a speed visible to the naked eye.
It was as if the goddess’s existence in this world had been exhausted to nurture such a blooming flower!
Winter comes and goes, autumn harvests and winter stores, the four seasons cycle endlessly. Chu Sheng's consciousness is now extremely fragmented and divided into many pieces.
The time that the Golden Lotus was watered by the blood of the goddess seemed very short, so short that it was all over in the blink of an eye, but it also seemed very long, so long that one figure after another flashed before Chu Sheng's eyes:
Chongming with an ugly face, the extremely angry God Lord, the greedy and fearful Demon King, the compassionate and cautious Buddhist disciple, the determined sword cultivator...
There was also that face that flashed by, but Chu Sheng could never mistake it.
——Master!
She stared at the young monk's face in astonishment.
Although countless years have passed, time has not left any traces on his face, so that even now, Chu Sheng can recognize Yun Mengzi effortlessly.
Chu Sheng's consciousness returned to Kunlun Ruins.
The goddess was not dead yet, and still had her last breath. She stared at Chu Sheng, as if she was waiting for the consciousness of this descendant to return here.
"I wanted everyone to live happily forever, but this led to a bad ending...
Junior brother, Xiaolong, the decision they finally made, everything, was all because of me, so that this unresolved problem has been passed into your hands.
Perhaps, the result of all this is that we want too much and have made the wrong choices..."
She stroked the petals of the golden lotus as if she was stroking Chu Sheng's face. Her devilish eyes were filled with compassion and pain, and at this moment, tears flowed out.
"Remember the lessons we learned at this time and don't make the same mistakes again..."
“Don’t make the same mistake again!”
The goddess closed her eyes.
The moment the invisible barrier was suddenly broken, Ye Ziqing pounced forward and stretched out his hand to take away the lotus that Chu Sheng had transformed into.
“——Xiao Sheng!!!”
The sun, moon, morning stars and all things in the world were trembling together, just like Ye Ziqing at this moment.
In his imagination, his junior sister, as a variable, would never be in danger, and even if her life was hanging by a thread, she would still be able to survive. However...
At this moment, Ye Ziqing could no longer see the originally clear trajectory of his fate, just as he had been unable to see his own destiny from the very beginning.
The eldest brother of the Hehuan Sect made a decision based on his emotions before his reason. The moment the lotus bathed in blood lay in Ye Ziqing's hand, he suddenly realized the huge loophole in his previous cognition.
When the observer's fate intersects with others, the balance of absolute neutrality will instantly become unbalanced.
The world is in a raging furnace, and the mortal world is in ruins. At this moment, just like that moment, Ye Ziqing, who is in the middle of the situation, rescues Chu Sheng. This is the fate that was already written by the heavens!
Chu Sheng endured the severe pain and remained mentally clear. When her lotus body broke, the girl, who had returned to her original appearance, leaned in Ye Ziqing's arms with an expression of great pain.
The goddess's blood and her soul blended seamlessly at this moment, and the goddess's memories and her own memories were already mixed together:
“…Junior brother…Senior brother, I…Xiaolong…save Master…!”
Ye Ziqing bit his fingertip and used his blood to write the spell that he had engraved in his heart many years ago on the girl's forehead.
"I hope you don't blame me, Xiao Sheng." He whispered, and then read out the obscure runes one by one from his lips.
"I pledge this with my body, my bones, my spirit, and blood. In my name, I bind you to this covenant—"
The young man's hair began to fade to snow-white strands visibly with the naked eye. He took a long breath with pain and then spoke quickly.
"United by heart and soul, we live and die together, bound together by a common destiny... Even if we perish, this resolve will remain unwavering, heaven and earth shall bear witness—"
Ye Ziqing's arm was covered with bloody marks from Chu Sheng's unconscious pinching.
Regret, sadness, anger, pain, guilt, helplessness.
Chu Sheng was swept by countless emotions and wandered in the star-like sea of memories. She stared at the many fragments of memories without blinking, her hand still tightly grasping the half-opened golden lotus.
She finally discovered the name of the goddess among the vast sea of memories.
"I am Tai Shang."
In the chaotic world, the female cultivator who accidentally stepped into it reached out her hand to the young man who had just awakened.
"——Are you the one they're talking about, my junior apprentice? Remember to call me Senior Sister."
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