Chapter 54054 Young Nezha's Troubles 2.0
Nezha seemed to hear A Yu's voice.
He kept falling, time lost in time, darkness without end. Until this call pierced the nothingness, carrying a certain anxiety and warmth he couldn't understand but instinctively longed for, suddenly pulling his sinking consciousness back.
He knew it was A Yu's voice without a doubt.
My chaotic thoughts struggled to focus, trying to capture that fleeting sound.
His chaotic thoughts gradually twirled together like a thread. He felt as if he were drowning in the depths of the ocean. His pale, almost transparent fingers curled imperceptibly. His thick, wet eyelashes trembled, as if he were straining with all his strength to pry open his eyelids, which were weighing down with such immense pressure, but ultimately, he failed.
Ayu...
Ayu...
Memories were like a thin mist, lingering and spreading in his consciousness, which was trying hard to stay awake.
Ever since his master had used lotus root to reshape his body, memories of his past life had flooded back. But strangely, Ah Yu's presence was everywhere in those memories. He clearly remembered never having seen her before his death.
Now, Ayu was just a small carp in the lotus pond, yet to fully develop. But in his revived memories, she was already a young girl.
He never doubted that these two Ayu were not the same person. Only occasionally would a vague thought arise: Was it really him that the young Ayu in his memory was gazing at? For him, their true encounter began in this lotus pond.
When he first arrived at the lotus pond, his soul had just settled into the unopened lotus. The ethereal, still water reflected his still childish yet distant features. Back then, he had no memory of his previous life.
Then, a silver and white carp swam lightly over and timidly took a light bite of his lotus stem.
It doesn't hurt at all, and it even feels a little itchy.
The little carp had no worries and just loved swimming around in the lotus pond. One day, he took the initiative to say hello, and then naturally, they began to bask in the sun together.
She called him Little Lotus.
He called her Ayu.
Lianchi's days were uneventful and even after his memory returned, he still cherished those days immensely.
It was as if he had never known such peace since his birth. No fear, no burden, no sharp glances or whispers, only the sweet fragrance of lotus and a small fish quietly accompanying him.
The master said that Ayu was the product of innate spiritual energy, and that his chance to attain enlightenment wasn't at Qianyuan Mountain. He didn't elaborate on the rest of the story. Although Ayu felt a little annoyed, he didn't take it to heart.
But before going down the mountain, the master told him that A Yu's soul was congenitally incomplete.
It is transformed from innate spiritual energy, but the soul is inherently incomplete.
This is unheard of.
But the master's last sentence made his face darken.
"She appeared when I was guiding your soul into the lotus body. I think there is a karmic connection between you and her."
For some reason, his heart trembled slightly when he heard this.
But the master's next words made his expression suddenly darken.
"Now that you have gone down the mountain to face the calamity, she also has her own path to follow."
After the Conferred Gods Tribulation was over, he returned to Qianyuan, but as expected, she was nowhere to be found. Even her usual companion, the white crane, had vanished. The boy Jinxia said a whirlpool had suddenly appeared in the lotus pond, sucking both the fish and the crane in.
He knew that her path had begun.
But my heart still feels heavy.
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The next time we met, he was passing through that sudden vortex.
The vortex appeared without warning, without discerning time or location. The moment he stepped out of the vortex, the aura around him suddenly dropped to freezing point.
The person who held A Yu in his arms had a face exactly like his.
It’s also Nezha.
Nezha of this world,
Seeing A Yu snuggling docilely in the other's arms, an almost violent desire to destroy surged from the bottom of his heart, so strong that it frightened him.
Strange... so strange.
How could he come up with such an idea?
In this world, A Yu became the deity of the Yunshui River and was called the Yunshui Niangniang, a name that was merely an illusion. Rumor has it that there once was a Yunshui Niangniang in the Yunshui River, but she later disappeared, and no one knows what became of her.
And that crane actually became the demon king entrenched on the White Tiger Ridge next door.
This world is in the midst of a great calamity, and Tang Monk and his disciples are on their way to the West to obtain Buddhist scriptures. They must go through 81 trials and tribulations. The king of cranes is one of them.
A Yu kept muttering, "It's a setup." Now that I think about it, wasn't the Conferred Gods calamity of the past also a carefully laid chess game?
As soon as Tang Sanzang and his disciples crossed the Yunshui River, they were abducted by a small demon under the command of a crane. The crane demon even sent a message inviting Ah Yu to go and taste Tang Sanzang's flesh.
By this point, he had sensed something was terribly wrong. There was no reason for He to be involved in this turmoil. Unless... having been stranded in this world for so long, even he had been quietly assimilated by its laws?
But this question was answered the moment he actually saw the crane.
He is not a crane at all.
Nezha, himself the incarnation of a lotus root, long since detached from his mortal form, was exceptionally sensitive to the emotions surging within flesh and blood. Within the body of the crane demon before him, too many and too complex emotions were pent up, emotions that were definitely not what a spiritual crane should be feeling.
He was possessed by another body.
A fierce fight suddenly broke out, but no one was victorious. Or perhaps the person occupying the crane's body had intended to force them into a scroll.
Let's call that scroll "Map of Mountains, Rivers, and States." He knew full well that it wasn't the authentic scroll held by Nuwa. It was a replica He had obtained from somewhere, perhaps possessed by the evil spirit within the artifact the moment he received it.
Within the world within the scroll, Ayu had lost all his memories. Someone must have tampered with his world, though their purpose was unknown. And he, once again, had become a lotus, standing alone in a water vat.
He was unwilling to give in, and even more unwilling to submit. So he used some tricks to lure her closer, tempting her to take him off with her own hands. This way, he could stay in her room and in front of her with a clear conscience.
But how could that guy appear in his full form?
Hearing her sincere admiration and praise for that "Nezha" with her own ears, the pent-up anger and a kind of gloomy restlessness instantly overwhelmed his rationality, and the terrible destructive desire in his heart surged again, almost bursting out of his body.
Fortunately, his overly agitated appearance at that time frightened her, and she fled in a panic, thus preventing her from witnessing his extremely bad state, which was about to lose control.
The events of Yunshui River unfolded in unexpected directions. First, it was revealed that the river god worshipped in Yunshui Town had long since vanished, the Hexian Temple in ruins and devoid of worship. Then, on the way home, they witnessed the use of paper figurines carrying sedan chairs, and finally, the custom of requiring human sacrifice to appease the so-called "wrath of the river god"...
Oh.
The river god has long since died, so who is he trying to appease his anger for?
There was something strange and unusual about all of this.
Is this really a disaster tailor-made for Tang Seng?
Could the owner of this scroll be that "brother"? Otherwise, how could we explain the fact that only Ayu has an extra relative in the painting?
Her nighttime visit to the River God Temple wasn't in vain. Ayu fell into a hallucination, witnessing the appearance and death of the last River God. It turns out that by consuming the previous River God's flesh and blood, one inherits his throne and continues to produce the secret elixir that prolongs life. And the last River God was none other than her "brother's" sister.
Her death left the throne of the deity of Yunshui River vacant until Ayu arrived...
But...is this really just a coincidence?
Suddenly I remembered what I had heard A Yu say about Tang Monk volunteering to be a human sacrifice. A Yu and that brother who appeared out of nowhere are so similar, aren’t they?
Could it be that A Yu is the reincarnation of A’s brother and sister?
No, it's impossible. Ayu isn't from this world, so how can he be reincarnated?
However, the scroll has been taken to the Heavenly Palace by that guy to report on his work. There are many unsolved mysteries in it, and there is no way to know what it means.
It was A Yu who actually raised a question.
Is the same soul the same person before and after reincarnation? Or if two souls occupy the same body, can they still be considered the same person?
In the end, they still didn't come up with an accurate answer.
The next time Nezha encountered a whirlpool was when he was on his way to Qianyuan Mountain after finishing his monster-catching mission. As he just reached the sky above Qianyuan Mountain, the whirlpool suddenly appeared.
He had clearly grabbed A Yu, but he still lost sight of her, as if some force was deliberately separating them.
Fortunately, the vortex still sent them to Qianyuan Mountain, although it was Qianyuan Mountain in another world. But this time, for some unknown reason, Nezha was also brought to this world by the vortex.
Is it a coincidence? Or intentional?
He met the master from this world, who looked different. Taiyi Zhenren from this world was also surprised to see them, but only for a moment before he quickly calmed down. It turned out that Ayu had already explained the situation to him and knew they were looking for him. But when the Zhenren led them to the lotus pond, Ayu had disappeared again. Even Nezha from this world was gone.
The Immortal knew that they were going to Mount Hua, and under the Immortal's guidance, he and Nezha went to Mount Hua.
But before he reached Mount Hua, something unexpected happened to him.
For some unknown reason, fragments of his memory reappeared, and at the same time, the desire for destruction hidden deep in his heart surged up again. He tried his best to suppress it, and Nezha also helped him, but in the end, he still failed...
In just a moment, his consciousness was completely immersed in the deep sea.
In a trance, he heard a voice.
It’s my turn…
Almost at the same moment, a red figure appeared on the shore, shrouded in a cold aura that kept strangers away. He watched helplessly as the little lotus sank into the dark sea.
Not until his consciousness is completely swallowed by the deep sea can he fully occupy this body.
But before the time came, A Yu appeared in Xiao Lianhua's shrine.
He watched her calling out to Little Lotus and rushing towards the lightless sea. He felt as if he was pricked by something invisible and subconsciously raised his hand to press his heart.
There, a faint but clear throbbing sound was heard.
Originating from the depths of the same soul, these two completely different states actually produced an unprecedented subtle yet real resonance because of this call.
Ayu...
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"Just because you happen to have nonexistent memories, you think you have the ability to control your body?" A cold voice sounded. Little Lotus opened her eyes, her expression filled with hostility.
"Pretender, die!" After saying that, the flaming spear shot straight at the red figure on the reef.
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The author has something to say: Nezha’s reincarnation is too weird, so it will not happen.
The past and present lives are completely based on A Yu as a reference. So for her, there is a past life Nezha and a present life Nezha.
According to modern science, the emergence of sub-personalities is caused by the emergence of past life memories. This is roughly the situation.
The next chapter will be the end.
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