Chapter 159 (End of Chapter 159)
Time flies, and years pass by.
More than a hundred years passed in the blink of an eye. Shanran felt that her time was coming to an end. There was no one in the world she could trust without reservation, so she found a very secluded place to die.
She was in a coma for more than two years, and when she woke up, she encountered a very big crisis.
A group of people found some very old information and speculated that Shan Ran would experience a long period of weakness every hundred years or so.
So they devised a "god-killing" plan, wanting to capture the goddess Shan Ran and study her secrets.
Fortunately, the place Shan Ran was looking for was very well hidden, and she woke up just as the organization was about to find her.
There is a very powerful superhuman among this group.
But that person couldn't even withstand a single move from Shan Ran before dying instantly.
Looking at the blood and severed limbs scattered on the ground, Shanran suddenly felt very bored.
For more than a hundred years after her awakening, Shan Ran never interfered in anything on land again, letting them develop as they pleased.
Whatever.
She couldn't be bothered to care anymore.
She spends half her time in the sea, playing with Rou Rou's offspring, and sometimes she even transforms into a shark.
The other half of their time is spent in the sky and in the deep forests of the mountains.
Sometimes it transforms into a harpy eagle soaring through the air, and sometimes it transforms into a black snake darting through the damp and cold jungle.
One century, then another century.
Unbeknownst to many, more than a thousand years have passed, and Shan Ran has lived alone in the world for seven hundred years.
After Nan Guishang died by self-destruction, she lived alone for nearly 700 years.
Even if she's incredibly lonely, she won't expose herself.
She could accept dying a natural death, but she would never take her own life.
She just felt lonely, and if things got really bad, she would find a way to do something interesting.
Life is so precious, and immortality is a treasure that countless people yearn for; she could not possibly give up her life.
It's still pretty boring, though.
Just as Shan Ran was contemplating how to celebrate living for a thousand years, a voice echoed in her mind.
Do you want to go back?
The voice of the world's will is still so immature. A mere thousand years is but a fleeting moment compared to the hundreds of millions of years of lifespan of a world.
Shan Ran looked somewhat bewildered: "Go back to where?"
Go back to your original world.
[My...original world?]
Long-buried memories gradually surfaced from dusty corners, and Shanran recalled the events before she woke up.
In that world, she lived a simple life filled with small joys.
There, her happiness was minimal, and her sadness was minimal.
There, there are no superpowers, no leaders of several continents, no gods of a world, only an ordinary person with ordinary joys and sorrows.
Having lived for over a thousand years, I've seen all kinds of people in the world.
Sometimes, when the mood struck her, she would even observe the lives of some people, intermittently, until their deaths.
I've really seen everything.
Shan Ran felt like she was someone detached from reality. No, didn't everyone call her a goddess? Well, let's just say she was a god detached from reality.
What is it like to live an ordinary life as an ordinary person?
She arrived in this world in her early twenties, while in her original world she was still a young adult.
What would it be like to live there forever?
Life is long and boundless, and even the most beautiful people will eventually take life for granted.
If you have too much, you won't cherish it as much.
If she knew that life was finite, how would she live it?
How did she live without her superpowers?
Do you want to go back? I can help you go back. This is only the first millennium. You have countless more millennia to spend alone.
Immortality is sometimes not a blessing, but rather a punishment.
Shan Ran lowered his head and remained silent.
The world's will did not urge them on, and remained silent as well.
Tick-tock, tick-tock...
Shan Ran was in a jungle at the moment, and her lower body was still a black snake tail.
The whole environment was very humid, and there was the sound of water droplets falling from the large leaves on the side.
The dripping sound was rhythmic, like some kind of timekeeping device, urging Shanran to make a decision as soon as possible.
When the sound of dripping water had lasted for more than five hundred times, the World Will finally couldn't help but speak again.
Have you thought it through?
Shan Ran's long hair fell down, obscuring her face.
She hadn't taken care of her hair in a long time; it was now long, black, and very smooth.
It was only slightly damp from the jungle, and the strands of hair that reached past her waist fell onto the black snake scales below, shimmering with a fluorescent light.
From the side viewpoint, you can't see Shanran's expression at all.
All that could be seen were her pale shoulders peeking out from under her black hair, trembling slightly.
Trembling?
【you......】
Before the world's will could say anything, Shan Ran's laughter could be heard.
"Hahahahahaha..."
Shan Ran laughed louder and louder, until finally she stopped trying to hide it and burst into laughter.
She laughed freely.
There was also a sense of relief in it.
【........】
The laughter lasted for several minutes. Finally, she raised her hand to wipe away the tears of laughter, flicked her fingers, and her body returned to dryness. The snake tail transformed into a pair of slender and powerful legs.
Throughout the entire process, the world's will remained silent.
Shan Ran let out a soft chuckle through her nose, lifted her eyelids, and looked at the air in front of her.
Her eyes shone brightly, and after centuries of silence, they blazed with intense light once more.
"You're in too much of a hurry."
[...]
"If I wait another thousand years, and further deplete my will and mental state, you only need to ask once, and I will agree to return to my original world."
"Unfortunately, you were still a little too hasty."
"The true world will doesn't care about a thousand years. This world has existed for so long, yet the world's will is still just a baby. Its concept of time is different from that of humans, and it wouldn't specifically ask me such a question."
"After entering the mist, I stepped into this world, right?"
"The Southern Merchant is impatient, while the Kunwu businessman is steady and reliable. You understand each of their personalities very well. However, you are too fixated on their 'personas'."
"No matter how impatient or obsessed Nan Guishang is with revenge, he wouldn't interrupt me after entering the fog and then risk going out alone. He once had the idea of self-destruction, but as long as there's a glimmer of hope, he won't go that far. As long as my body is still intact, he would never choose to self-destruct."
"Unfortunately, their labels were so deeply ingrained that I didn't even realize something was wrong."
“However,” Shan Ran looked around, a slight smile playing on her lips, “so this is what it feels like to live forever. I also want to thank you for letting me live for a thousand years. Such an experience is quite valuable. Thank you.”
【？？？】
Shan Ran extended her index finger and lightly tapped the empty space in front of her.
Centered on her finger, the entire space rippled like the surface of water after a stone was dropped, spreading out in layers of waves.
She took a step forward, crossing the transparent barrier.
The moment she crossed the barrier, the jungle where only the sound of dripping water had been heard vanished instantly, replaced by a cacophony of noises that flooded into Shanran's ears.
When she opened her eyes again, the whole world instantly turned upside down, and before her was a dark and gloomy sky.
She was lying on the ground, trapped in the battlefield. Rhine and the others had her in the center, protecting her, while layers of "living corpses" surrounded her.
Like the zombies in the illusion, these things have doubled their superpowers and stamina, cannot feel pain, and being hit in the head is useless; they can also attack with their limbs.
Unless you grind them into powder.
"Dye it!"
"Shanran, you're awake!"
"Ranran, you're finally... I'm so glad you're alright..."
"......"
Soon, Shanran learned from them that she had been in a coma for a whole month.
After stepping into the mist, the group arrived at the First Continent.
Shan Ran lost consciousness the moment she entered.
Only Shan Ran was pulled into the illusion; the others had no idea what was happening, so they could only move Shan Ran away.
Because they didn't know when Shanran would wake up, they wouldn't launch an attack rashly. To conserve their strength, they fought and retreated, not lingering in battle, and running away as soon as they finished fighting.
They were small targets, possessed extraordinary abilities, and had strong counter-surveillance capabilities, allowing them to evade numerous direct attacks.
Here, they have no signal and are completely isolated from the world.
The sky remained the same color.
Gloomy and drowsy.
Kunwu was experienced, and it was thanks to his calculation ability that everyone knew how many days had passed; otherwise, they would have long lost their sense of time.
The three families wanted to capture them all, but they always managed to find a chance to escape.
Nan Guishang and the three great families harbored a deep hatred for each other because of the murder of their parents, but he knew that everything had to wait until Shan Ran regained her senses.
Hearing this, Shan Ran patted Nan Guishang's face with satisfaction and praised him, a rare occurrence for her.
Nan Guishang's face instantly turned bright red, almost matching the color of his red hair.
Seemingly aware that Shanran had regained consciousness, the siege outside gradually subsided.
The three major families want to run away.
A thousand years is an illusion, but the mountain dyeing has preserved a thousand years of memories.
They failed to kill her in the illusion. After she emerged, the three great families faced an enemy with a thousand years of experience and memories.
Having finally gained powerful superpowers, they didn't want to die.
Shan Ran realized their intentions and gave chase.
Offense and defense can easily shift.
In the previous month, a third of the number of zombies had been eliminated, and that was only because they were holding back while waiting for Shanran to wake up.
Now they've given up and launched a full-scale counterattack.
After holding back for a month, Nan Guishang had no more scruples and rushed to the front, with a large number of flames surging towards the living corpses like an overwhelming tidal wave.
To completely eliminate a zombie, its limbs must be completely pulverized.
Therefore, the special ability of the Southern Merchant is the most suitable among all people, and is their natural nemesis.
Just like in the Mountain Dye Illusion, the people of the three major families have become neither human nor ghost.
Their bodies were covered with tumors, each of varying sizes and irregular shapes.
The face was also covered in tumors, some of which had their eyeballs protruding from the tumors, with a bulging, rotating eyeball at the top, and human faces on the tumors next to them.
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